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From: SSIRCAR@ecs.umass.edu (Sant.)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: SCAN hangs while checking Window's SOL.EXE file (PC)
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Date: 14 May 91 21:41:00 GMT
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icking@gmdzi.uucp (Werner Icking) writes:
> As far as I have seen, the problem does not depend on the version of SCAN.
> It depends on running SCAN under Windows in conjunction with SHARE.
> It seems to me that Windows opens a lot of files and the error occurs if
> SCAN attempts to open one of these files, too.
>
> The problem disappeared on my PC since I replaced loading SHARE by using
> NOSHARE (Simtel or mirror-sites: <MSDOS.SYSUTL>NOSHARE.ZIP)

But I'm running SCAN while I boot up.  My system is a 8meg 386-33 w/CACHE and
DOS 3.3, so I don't use SHARE.
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