Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 May 91 11:11:00 EDT From: HERRICK, DANIEL Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prodigy or Fraudigy ??? Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 329, Message 5 of 9 Lines: 29 In article , leryo@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Leryo Malbito) writes: > Upon showing V11 issue 311 (the one with Mark's comments) to a tax > professional friend, he discovered not only confidential tax info on > most of his clients, but logs of Telix sessions which he didn't > remember taking, in addition to the entire Telix dialing directory, > including passwords, macros, etc. An interesting side note is that > Telix is on his D: drive, while stage.dat et al are on his C: drive. > He is still searching through his immense (950K) STAGE.DAT file, > shouting expletives. Look in the file config.sys in the root directory of the boot disk for a line that says "buffers=40" or some other number. DOS sets aside this number of buffers. When your program writes one byte to a file it goes into the appropriate location in one of those buffers and then the whole buffer is written to disk. Carrying along whatever data was last moved through that buffer. The typical number of buffers will hold a lot of data from whatever you were doing before starting Prodigy to copy into stage.dat. This is the most likely mechanism for data kept only on D: to appear in stage.dat on C:. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com