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- From: rslade@sfu.ca (Robert Slade)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: help, high weirdness (PC)
- Message-ID: <0010.9208191546.AA13760@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 23:42:03 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- hurd@sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd) writes:
- >Hi, I've been having strange hassles with my machine lately, symptoms
- >include;
- >1) Inability to boot from a floppy. It boots from c: always, no error
- >message if I leave a non-bootable floppy in there, and no booting from
- >a bootable.
-
- What kind of a computer do you have? Several models have CMOS/BIOS
- options which allow you to disable floppy booting, or to "boot" from
- the B: drive.
-
- >2) Keyboard spaceyness, it gets to thinking that the shift is down, so
- >even numbers show up as @#$%^, and the alt ,and ctrl keys don't quite
- >do what I expect them to (usually happens in WP5.1)
-
- This is very widely known and seen behaviour, and I see it myself more
- often in Word Perfect than in other programs. (Mind you, I use WP a
- *lot*.)
-
- >3) My default settings in WP5.1 just reset, my Canadian WP expects US
- >lexicon, and other things reset to original.
-
- Again, this is a very common problem. All you have to do is go back
- into the "initial setting" setup and tell it that you want to use the
- UK langauge modules. (If it doesn't find this info, it "defaults" to
- the US files.)
-
- >4) QEMM sent me this error twice when loading F-PROT (or was it
- >VIRSTOP?)
-
- We've had a report about this type of thing, and I believe frisk is
- working on it.
-
- >5) VSHEILD sent me this once
- >
- >VSHEILD 4.9V93
- >Sorry an impossible internal error occurred
- >Error code is 8522
-
- Only once? how often do you use it (ie. boot up)?
-
- >6) F-PROT 2.04b and Scan 93 find nothing, although vshield found an
- >[emp] on a floppy and f-prot concurred, but I think I got that one
- >before it had a chance to do anything. F-prot heuristic search
- >reports that the shareware utility Directory control DC106f.zip
- >searches for executables.
-
- Well, that sounds like a reasonable thing for a disk/program manager
- to do.
-
- >Is it viral? ( He asks the impossible to answer question )
- >thanks for any help or advice.
-
- Nothing you have said so far sounds like there is any viral activity.
-
- >- -- Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca
- >Behavioural Ecology Research Group
- >Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ.
-
- Check with Bill Kloubek or myself.
-
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