rigas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Marc Rigas ) (02/08/91)
I have been running SigmaPlot graphing program under Windows 3 for some time.
The other night, I was happily typing in data in the edit mode of SigmaPlot
when the computer hung up, so that even CTRL-ALT-DEL would not reset the
machine. When I did a hard reset and Windows came back up again, I tried
clicking on my SigmaPlot icon and I got a message that said that the file was
not found.
I got out of windows and found that everything in the sigmaplot directory
on my hard drive except for the files temp1.spl and temp2.spl, each about
366 bytes had been erased. Norton noticed a size allocation error in
FILE:"\sigma" -- it called it a file, not a directory -- but it could not
repair it properly. I ran SCAN Version 4.5B66 on the hard disk and no
viruses were found. Does this sound like the work of some discrete virus,
or is this a Windows bug? Any insight would be appreciated.
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