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From: GREVE@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (Michael Greve)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Strange Problem Running Disinfectant 2.4! (Mac)
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Date: 4 Jan 91 20:04:00 GMT
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     I'm having problems running Disinfectant 2.4.  We have one Mac
   lab consisting of 16 SE/30's with 40 mg hard drives that are
   partitioned into two hard disks.  During my normal maintenance of
   the lab I do a routine virus check using Disinfectant 2.4.  The
   program works great on 15 of the machines.  When I run it on the
   last machine, the program calls up fine, but in the upper right
   hand corner where it should normally tell you which drive/partition
   you are currently scaning, the program comes up with a blinking message
   saying insert a disk to be checked.  This lab is networked using
   Appleshare and I do the virus check from the network.  On the other
   15 machines the name of the server comes up, I then switch to the
   2 partitions and scan them.  On this last machine, the name of the
   server shows up for a quick second then it changes to the flashing
   message.  I've tried running it from diskette and the hard drives and
   still get the same message.  I can't get it to work at all.

     Could this be some kind of virus??  I've never seen this before and
   have no clue as to what could be causing this.  I have had no problem
   with this particular machine, everything else runs fine on it.  Does
   anybody have ideas about what may be causing this.  I've run out of
   ideas.  Thanks for any assistance.

					Michael Greve
					University of Pa.
					The Wharton School
					greve@wharton.upenn.edu