Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 21:45:06 CDT From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prodigy or Fraudigy Message-ID: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 320, Message 6 of 11 Lines: 25 Given the conflicting opinions about Prodigy and the STAGE.DAT file, I believe there is a fairly easy way to determine the truth. I have a TSR utility that will record every DOS call made by a program. If I had a Prodigy kit, I would run it under this TSR and examine the resulting DOS call log for unusual actions. If, indeed, the STAGE.DAT file is copying erased information, nothing untoward may be intended. However, if the logfile shows Prodigy's front-end snooping about on my hard drive partitions, I think that will speak for itself. Anybody got a spare (virgin) Prodigy kit to donate to the investigation? Roy M. Silvernail roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu roy@cybrspc.uucp (maybe!) [Moderator's Note: You are welcome to try this experiment, and by all means report back on the results, but the consensus here over the past two days in messages is that the whole thing is really a non-issue ... just a case of Prodigy grabbing up 'empty' space to store stuff. PAT]