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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Bug in F-PROT? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0003.9209092012.AA23912@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 19:57:41 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?
-
- Quoted from one of the documentation files (PROBLEM.DOC):
-
- "F-PROT cannot be used on a single-floppy machine without a hard disk
- or network connections. This is because if the F-PROT is run from a
- diskette, the diskette may not be removed while the program is
- running, so other diskettes cannot be inserted for scanning."
-
- If your machine has a hard disk, then scan it first (to ensure that it
- is virus-free). Afterwards, copy the F-Prot files there and start
- F-Prot from there. You'll be able to scan diskettes without problems.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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