Dark Avenger
Ted Mecimore-Catawba Valley Comm Coll.
I just got hit with a really strange variant of the dark avenger virus
today. It only attaches, so far to DBASE *.frm files and *.PRG files and
to a couple of WP51 documents. F-PROT will catch the variation but cannot
fix it. After deleting the files I still have a mystery. When a directory
is done on the hard drive and piped to MORE ( DIR |MORE) two 0 byte files
appear. When a DIR is pulled they do not appear. The next time a DIS |
MORE is done the mystery files rename themselves the names are something
along these lines APASHEG or some such silly name. HELP!!!
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Rob Whelan
Ted,
Don't worry about the mystery files. These are a normal byproduct
of using the | function. They occur with MORE, FIND etc. What
happens is that the output from the first command (in your case
DIR) is routed to an output temporary file or files and then
input back into the second command in the pipe (MORE in this
case). Once all the piping is finished dos deletes the temp
files. If you're curious about the content of the files you
can use dos undelete to recover and view them. It should be
just text stuff.
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