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- From: rslade@sfu.ca (Robert Slade)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: CPAV and Windows (PC)
- Message-ID: <0015.9208311930.AA08349@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:13:39 GMT
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- Cleaning out the desk today. :-)
-
- The rumours of parts of Central Point's Anti Virus being included with
- the next release of MS-DOS, discussed here previously, would seem to
- be confirmed by now. This prompted, in my mind, the possibility that
- Windows would have some such capability in its next release as well.
-
- This was brought home to me as I tried to install the Logo computer
- language on a machine recently. I was installing two versions, one
- for DOS and one for Windows (both based upon the LSRHS version.) Both
- versions contained files named LOGO.EXE. For reasons of the path and
- environment requirements of the files, they were extracted into
- different directories, and the Windows version copied into the main
- directory as WLOGO.EXE.
-
- In attempting to install the program within Windows, both LOGO.EXE
- files were found, even though one was not a Windows program. Both
- files prompted an alert window from CPAV. Neither program was
- identified by the full path name. The filename alone was given. It
- is reasonable that a "new" file should be flagged by change detection.
- However, the WLOGO.EXE file never generated an alert.
-
- The alert generated was very terse. It simply stated that the file
- LOGO.EXE had changed. It did not indicate that this was a new file.
- The only options were "OK" and "Cancel". "OK" what? OK to kill the
- file? "cancel" my Windows session completely? OK appeared to let the
- Windows installation procedure proceed. However, sometimes (I tried
- the installation more than once) the CPAV window was not removed.
- Activity "behind" it would "show through", but the original screen was
- not redrawn. Although the "OK" allowed the operation to proceed,
- subsequent runs still did not "know" about the LOGO.EXE file.
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