JFORD1%UA1VM.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (James Ford) (10/27/89)
A friend who works a company began to experience some interesting problems on his hard drive. He works with JL Modula2. Code that had run in the past would not work now. Someone else could put a comment in a file (however you do that in Modula2), re-compile it, and it would hang. I gave him a copy of Scan 1.1V45 and Scanres 1.1V45, but they found nothing strange. He has purchased a copy of Flushot, and the following message is from him, describing what Flushot sees. Can anyone explain this? If you need more information from him, send direct to me and I'll ask him. For better or worse, the powers-that-be are leaning towards taking all source code off the hard drives, and doing a lowlevel/highlevel format of all harddisks involved. (I have no ideal if he has installed Flushot+ correctly, but he is by no means ignorant when dealing with computers.) Thxs James Ford - JFORD1@UA1VM.BITNET =========================================================================== Sent : Oct 25, 1989 at 5:44 PM Subj : Re: <1446> Bit (...after running SCAN 1.1V45, it found...) Not a thing.. it found nothing either on my systems or the ones at work. I'm still totally convinced something is sorely amiss, however. We installed Flu+ and watched JPI's Mod 2 compiler/linker do all kinds of strange calls (Flu+ labeled them as 'handle write access attempted' operations, but they appeared to be reads... why would anyone write to a 'DEF' file during a link? I checked them with a disk editor afterwards and found nothing but pure ASCII text...) I did discover one interesting thing. When you copy a non-executable file with COMMAND.COM, Flu is perfectly happy. When you copy an EXE, COM, etc. file you get the old 'handle write access attempted' msgs. Curious. Why would COMMAND.COM care what type of file is being copied? It seems to use DOS to open the file and the BIOS to transfer the data or something. The only thing I can figure with the compiler is that the program opens the file for READ/WRITE and Flu+ flags it just to be safe. We all got tired of the beeping, and Dean absolutely refused to believe anything was wrong, so everyone just kinda went back to doing their stuff and just checked it occasionally. Anyway, I really appreciate your uploading SCAN45 - I'm gonna keep pluggin and see if I can find out the problem. I'm also gonna call McAffee Assoc's board tonite and see what I can start finding out. Thanks! - -=Marcel=- ====================== end of note ========================================