X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Bill Marcum" Organization: Llewellyn's Ming Vase Shuffleboard League To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:09:41 +0500 Subject: Re: Antigen VirusScan found =*.bat file In-reply-to: <20020304.144844.-427279.0.domanspc@juno.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.12a) Message-Id: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > I used Norton AV 2002 on my computer and did not get a hit on this > *.bat bug. I do have a message from Joe Smith and it has an attachment > which is not mentioned in the body of the message. Is this the > location of the bug? > Nothing to worry about, as far as I could tell. It appears that one of the list members has anti-virus software configured to reject any attached .bat file. Another member made a humorous(?) reply to the automated warning: > computer must be exterminated > immediately.will proceed to format all disk drives starting with > drive C Joe Smith's message dated Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:47:59 contained a config.sys, an autoexec.bat, and output of a "MEM" command, and they were mentioned in the body of the message. In other words, nothing unusual for a message from a user asking for help with DOS.