From:	jimh AT pantheon DOT yale DOT edu (J. Hormuzdiar)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Rhide crashes hard drive
Date:	28 Mar 1997 19:24:38 GMT
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Hello again-
	Well, I received four responses to this posting, and all four 
said the same thing.... "you have a virus".  So I decided to get the 
newest most up to date virus detection program and run it (I had already 
checked for viruses many times with my older software and found none)- 
and guess what- I found a virus!!!!  (called the "hidenowt" virus).

	Well, thank you all for your replies....  I just wanted to come 
back and make it clear that it now looks like Rhide was in fact 
completely innocent in the harm done to my computer- So if anyone read my 
earlier post and was scared to install Rhide, don't be!  It is a great 
program!

						-Jim


J. Hormuzdiar (jimh AT pantheon DOT yale DOT edu) wrote:

: Hello-
: 	Rhide/DJGPP is a great combination, but I have been having a
: horrible time with something lately....

: 	Rhide has been crashing my hard drive, jumbling directories,
: deleting files.  It has happened four times to me now.  I have everything
: backed up on zip disks so it is not a catastrophe, but it is quite a
: nuscance.  Every time it happens, I have to reformat the whole drive and
: re-install everything.... and I usually lose at least a couple hours of
: work.

: 	The details are as follows....  Everything will be intact on my
: hard drive, then I move to my project directory and type "Rhide".  Unlike
: the other 90%+ of the time when everything comes up fine, Rhide will come
: up with the blank introductory screen that indicates no project is there. 
: At this point I have always just exited Rhide immediately and type "dir". 
: All times the directory is completely scrambled.... files are lost, new
: files are added (often with the same names as files I have on the root
: directory).  And the damage isn't confined to the directory I am working
: on.... everywhere on the hard drive are random scrambles, even whole
: directories.  Usually about 10% of the hard drive is "chomped" up.  One
: time it wasn't even confined to my e: drive (where I do my programming
: work, and where Rhide is located), but also spread to my c: drive.
: Running scandisk renders the hard drive once again usable, but can not
: save most of the files that are last.

: 	My system is as follows-

: 	1). 486DX-33 Silicon Star Motherboard (AKA "Abit"), 8Megs of ram

: 	2). 2 WD hard drives- one 350Meg, one 1.6Gig, and 1 1.44 floppy
: drive.

: 	3). Promise IDE controller (which includes an addition to the bios
: that allows me to access the whole 1.6Gig hard drive.... my motherboard's
: 4 year old bios was too limited to do this).

: 	5). AWE value edition sound card

: 	6). Teac 6x cdrom

: 	7). US Robotics 33.6 baud modem with fax and voice mail.

: 	8). Ethernet card plugged in but not being used.

: 	9). extra Hercules monochrome card and monitor.

: 	10). Trident VGA card.

: 	11). Iomega zip drive connected through parallel port (but this
: was never connected nor was the software present when the problems
: occurred).

: 	Of all this hardware, I am most suspicious that the promise card
: is part of the problem, as it is an unusual device that deals with hard
: drive organization.... plus I have to run a special driver to get it to
: work.

: 	I know that the problem is not due to a corrupt "Rhide" file, as I
: have re-downloaded it and the problem occurred again.... I am also
: relatively certain that it is not due to a virus, as I ran anti-virus
: software and found nothing (although I must admit that my virus software
: is not up to date).  The problem seems specific to Rhide in that I have
: never had this problem running any other software, although in the last
: month Rhide has done it four times.  And I doubt that it is because of
: DJGPP, because in all cases when the problem occurred, all I did was start
: Rhide and stop it (there was no compilation or running of software).

: 	Furthermore, the problem only started with a version of Rhide 1.1
: (one of the intermediary versions only available on R. Hoehne's web page).
: Earlier versions never had this problem.

: 	Has anyone else had this problem?  Does anyone have clues on how I
: can solve it?

: 						Thank you
: 							-Jim

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