1. Virus Help !
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Just Ran Virus Protection (NAV) Norton Anti Virus informed me that I have
Virus name: Bloodhound.File.String, and it's only found in Euphoria
.EXE's (ratland.exe-marbels.exe-abgte2.exe-eu editor.exe) did I get a virus
or is the coding in Euphoria not compatible with Norton Anti Virus ?
see .txt info below. Also I had to Delete Euphoria ex.exe and abgte2.exe and
the others until I find out.
PLEASE HELP !
~Mike Mordenti ( Mordenti Apiaries )
~11 hives of Italian bees and growing
~8 years in apiculture
~email mmore at ptd.net
~Webpage- http://www.angelfire.com/mo/beekeeping
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2. Re: Virus Help !
Send me an infected file and I'll check it with my PC-cillin... Other
than that, can't help you much... :)
Michael Mordenti wrote:
>
> Just Ran Virus Protection (NAV) Norton Anti Virus informed me that I have
> Virus name: Bloodhound.File.String, and it's only found in Euphoria
> .EXE's (ratland.exe-marbels.exe-abgte2.exe-eu editor.exe) did I get a virus
> or is the coding in Euphoria not compatible with Norton Anti Virus ?
> see .txt info below. Also I had to Delete Euphoria ex.exe and abgte2.exe and
> the others until I find out.
> PLEASE HELP !
>
> ~Mike Mordenti ( Mordenti Apiaries )
> ~11 hives of Italian bees and growing
> ~8 years in apiculture
> ~email mmore at ptd.net
> ~Webpage- http://www.angelfire.com/mo/beekeeping
>
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3. Re: Virus Help !
- Posted by "Paul L. McNeely" <drderail at USA.NET>
Nov 11, 1998
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Last edited Nov 12, 1998
Judging from the final lines:
If the Norton AntiVirus reports this infection in a file, this means
the Bloodhound (TM) system has analyzed and determined the file
exhibits virus- like behavior (i.e. it may contain a new/unknown
virus)
it looks as if Bloonhound is the name of the virus searching technology.
Meaning it found something that 'looked' like a virus. I'm guessing its due
to the way euphoria is interpreted. You probably won't have to worry unless
it shows up elsewhere. Its either a virus that is unknown to your version of
nav or just a mistake. I'd say its the latter.
>Just Ran Virus Protection (NAV) Norton Anti Virus informed me that I have
>Virus name: Bloodhound.File.String, and it's only found in Euphoria
>.EXE's (ratland.exe-marbels.exe-abgte2.exe-eu editor.exe) did I get a virus
>or is the coding in Euphoria not compatible with Norton Anti Virus ?
>see .txt info below. Also I had to Delete Euphoria ex.exe and abgte2.exe
and
>the others until I find out.
>PLEASE HELP !
>
>~Mike Mordenti ( Mordenti Apiaries )
>~11 hives of Italian bees and growing
>~8 years in apiculture
>~email mmore at ptd.net
>~Webpage- http://www.angelfire.com/mo/beekeeping
>
>
>
4. Re: Virus Help !
Michael Mordenti writes:
> Just Ran Virus Protection (NAV) Norton Anti Virus
> informed me that I have Virus name: Bloodhound.File.String ...
A week ago someone reported the same problem to me:
> Norton found "bloodhound file string" in your bin.exe and
> ex.exe..Please advise.Thanx
Here's what I said then...
Thanks for reporting this.
First, bin.exe is not ours, only ex.exe.
No one has ever reported that a virus scanner has
complained about ex.exe or anything else in our package.
I searched DejaNews on the Web and apparently
the "bloodhound" report is issued when the Norton antivirus
software is suspicious of a file, but not when it matches it
to an actual known virus. One person on DejaNews said
that after running scandisk and correcting inconsistencies
on his disk, this "bloodhound" message went away
(he was not a Euphoria user.)
If you are are worried about ex.exe, I would recommend
that you download EUPHOR20.ZIP directly from our Web site
and get the "official" version of ex.exe for v2.0.
I'm not sure what Norton is complaining about.
Perhaps the fact that ex.exe is a compressed
executable makes it look funny to Norton.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
5. Re: Virus Help !
>I'm not sure what Norton is complaining about.
>Perhaps the fact that ex.exe is a compressed
>executable makes it look funny to Norton.
Compressed executable ?
Euphoria's elegance just keeps amazing me.
Ralf
6. Re: Virus Help !
Ralf, what's so elegant about compression?
(Ralf and I obviously miss Matt's scattered one-liners! Sorrrry.) jiri
7. Re: Virus Help !
- Posted by Johnny Kinsey <jkinsey at MEDIAONE.NET>
Nov 12, 1998
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Last edited Nov 13, 1998
Robert,
You are correct. One more thing if you use the program called WinImage
(ie..Floppy disk imager for windows) to format a 1.44MB floppy to 1.68MB or
larger or in DMF format you will get this same message from Norton; when it
scans the boot sectors of the disk. Basicly it sees an inconsistancy
between the primary boot sector and the backup boot sectors on the disk.
Norton is a little strange this way. I don't think there is a problem with
his files on his drive. He prob. needs to re-innoculate the drive that his
files are on. This will prob. fix this problem.
See Ya on the NET!
JKinsey
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Subject: Re: Virus Help !
Michael Mordenti writes:
> Just Ran Virus Protection (NAV) Norton Anti Virus
> informed me that I have Virus name: Bloodhound.File.String ...
A week ago someone reported the same problem to me:
> Norton found "bloodhound file string" in your bin.exe and
> ex.exe..Please advise.Thanx
Here's what I said then...
Thanks for reporting this.
First, bin.exe is not ours, only ex.exe.
No one has ever reported that a virus scanner has
complained about ex.exe or anything else in our package.
I searched DejaNews on the Web and apparently
the "bloodhound" report is issued when the Norton antivirus
software is suspicious of a file, but not when it matches it
to an actual known virus. One person on DejaNews said
that after running scandisk and correcting inconsistencies
on his disk, this "bloodhound" message went away
(he was not a Euphoria user.)
If you are are worried about ex.exe, I would recommend
that you download EUPHOR20.ZIP directly from our Web site
and get the "official" version of ex.exe for v2.0.
I'm not sure what Norton is complaining about.
Perhaps the fact that ex.exe is a compressed
executable makes it look funny to Norton.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
8. Re: Virus Help !
>Ralf, what's so elegant about compression?
>(Ralf and I obviously miss Matt's scattered one-liners! Sorrrry.) jiri
Because otherwise a binded file would be > 300 kb, if you consider all
the watcom libraries that have to be linked with it (graphics, sound) ...
And if a binded file is, for example, 540 bytes, than esspecially the older
systems, need to hack their autoexec.bat to get it to work. "Thankfully",
with the windows 9x systems smart-disk, mscdex, etc. are all loaded outside
of the first 640 kb, but I still remember a time, where I didnt even have to
try to run an executable of 580 kb.
Ralf
