* Originally in WIN95
* Crossposted in VIRUS

Hello ALL,

I had my first encounter with some viral infections on the WinXPP box,
today.

I had to reboot the computer into "Safe mode with Command prompt" and run
the F-Prot command line program on each drive:

  fpcmd (drive_letter): /disinf /auto /delete /append /report=found.out

The whole process to six hours, twenty seven minutes and thirty nine
seconds.

It appears that three different viruses were found and deleted (they must
have been hiding for some time) and they only came to my attention when the
Real Time Scanner popped up with a warning message.

There is one (infected ???) file that did not get disinfected / deleted and
that is C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton CleanSweep\CLNSWEEP.CFG.
F-Prot reports 1205 suspicious objects in that file (encrypted program in
archive) and since it is (I think) a configuration file for the CleanSweep
program, I am somewhat hesitant to change the attributes in order to delete
the file.  I had noticed problems with F-Prot announcing "infections"
within the Clnsweep.cfg file before, but always chose to ignore the ("what
harm can a configuration file do?") file.

Can some one tell me how I might exclude this particular file from the
F-Prot hard drive scanning?

           Thanks ... Gerald

... Government corruption seems always to be reported in the past tense.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Monday December 13 2004]