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- From: gerald@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer (Prak Gusti))
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Bug in F-PROT? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0005.9209081605.AA21066@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:10:08 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Kevin_Haney@nihcr31.bitnet writes:
-
- >I was using F-PROT 2.04c from a bootable DOS 5.0 diskette. After
- >booting from the A: drive, I wanted to scan another diskette in the A:
- >drive. F-PROT produced unintelligible messages, such as "cotaaly
- >tanmcyng, ico staro%Nnurta...". Another user here reported the same
- >phenomenon. Does anyone have an explanation and/or fix for this
- >problem?
-
- With Frisk being on holidays, I think I might answer the question as
- well:
-
- It's not a bug, it's a feature!! :-)
-
- But seriously: As stated somewhere in F-Prot's documentation, F-Prot
- needs to (re)load parts of it now and then. (I think every text
- appearing on screen is stored in one of two datafiles - one for the
- user interface and the other one for virus descriptions).
-
- Frisk is well aware of the kind of problems you've got, but - if I remember
- correctly - does not plan to change it anytime soon.
-
- I hope I put it right and Frisk won't kill me when reading this!
-
- Gerald, sign of the mouse
-
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- . Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Technical University Vienna, Austria .
- . gerald@kongo.vmars.tuwien.ac.at .
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- . Sorry, I'm not a native speaker (flames to /dev/null) .
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