30 Dec
1998
30 Dec
'98
12:26 p.m.
On 30 Dec 98 at 11:23, John Amirault wrote:
HI,
I loaded Canon Creative 2 onto my Packard Bell Cyrix 300 and got Hare 7756
from it. Slowed this computer down to slower than my IBM PCjr. I booted from
my boot disk that I made when I first got my computer and used my Windows98
CD to run IRIS Antivirus and it cleaned the hard drive just fine.
I sent the CD back to Canon and they gave me Canon Creative 4 free.
On the PCjr, I picked up some floppies from the Salvation Army Store in
Binghamton, NY and ran a program and got STONED on my computer. I shut it
off and rebotted and ran my Antivirus on all the disks I have for the Jr.
This process took me about 5 hours and came up with no more virus's, boy was
I glad.
On the PCjr, I use DOS 6.22 and MSAV. I also scan ALL disks and CD ROMs now
no matter where they are from.
John Amirault
Beware of just using MSAV that came with 6.22. It does not pick up the newer
virii. My PC happily reported the system virus-free but some weird behavior led
me to use F-Prot and I dicovered to my horror a virus that had infected most of
my Dos-boxes. Since I use a lot of older systems and found proggies I had
figured that the newer virii would be unlikely to be present and had dealt
with older ones like the "stoned" and others. Now I always use the newest
version of virus-checker whenever I check out a new (old)box.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com