rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) (02/16/91)
Many thanks to those who responded. As you recall, I had two machines with identical numbers of bad bytes on their hard drives, which made me suspect viral infection (vi). I solicited responses from this newsgroup, and received many replies. I downloaded McAfee's scanv74c (or whatever the latest version is) from the SIMTEL20 archives, unzipped it, ported to my PC, did all that was required, and found that no viruses were present on either machine. Barring the possibility that I have a new viral strain, or one which is not checked as part of McAfee's list of 166, I have reason to believe that the chkdsk numbers were just coincidence -- it is a known fact (ref: a reader from South Africa) that hard disks come with defective sectors. For those interested, I accessed SIMTEL20 via ftp 26.2.0.74 and downloaded with the following: binary get PD1:<MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO>SCANV67C.ZIP get PD1:<MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO>SCANV67B.ZIP Since I am quoting some older mail, and I have newer versions, try downloading ascii mget PD1:<MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO>00-* which will give you the index of that particular subdirectory, which contains many helpful utilities and virus information. Thanks again to the Army, the NewsNet community, and all the people who took time to respond. - -- //===== //===== Russ Fink =============== // //____ rfink@eng.umd.edu // // University of Maryland //===== //===== College Park ============