On Sat, 07 Sep 2013, Ed Vance wrote to Tom Walker:

 EV> Hallelujah!!!!!!!

 EV> This morning I used the SyQuest EZFlyer 230 to put ALL the Data 
 EV> from my EZ135 disks on to a USB External Drive on the XP box.

 EV> The results were 15,300+ files about 1.75GB.

 EV> Photos, BBS Messages I've Kept For Reference, ZIP Files, Bunches 
 EV> and Bunches Of Stuff.

congratulations! :)

 EV> AVAST! didn't like some file(s) on a few disks and Told Me So!, 
 EV> and put them in the Vault.

you should adjust your settings in AVAST to ask you what to do instead of
it defaulting to putting things in the vault or deleting them... there are,
however, some options that do not offer an ASK choice :/

if you disable AVAST and have AVAST restore those files, i'd be happy to
take a look at them... i don't know if they would get by my protections at
my hamfdn address so you should probably send them to my gmail address if
you have it... if you don't, just ask ;)

 EV> Tonight I wanted a 'backup' so I Copied what I had on the USB 
 EV> Drive to a Directory on the C: drive.

 EV> Nest I Used AVAST! to Scan that Directory and it found more 
 EV> questionable files that it let pass through while I was copying 
 EV> the cartridges to the USB External Drive.

 EV> I also ran MalwareBytes which didn't find anything wrong.

malwarebytes doesn't look for the same things that avast does... one thing
may be heuristics... i don't recall if MWB looks inside of archives,
either... sometimes, these things will raise warnings about certain things
a program will do... for example, a self modifying program... perhaps it is
storing configuration information... perhaps it is rewriting itself due to
polymorphism... either way, the scanners whine about it...

 EV> SuperAntiSpyWare wondered about TWO files that are MacIntosh 
 EV> files.

not surprising since the binary may be and do different on a mac than on an
intel machine...

 EV> When I bought the EZ135 Disks they were Formatted for a MAC and 
 EV> each disk had to be converted to PC Format to use them on my DOS 
 EV> 5.0./Win3.1 486 box.

that's understandable...

 EV> I had copied the files on the disk As They Came, In Case "I" 
 EV> wanted to peek inside them to try to learn something.

 EV> Yep!, I try to Save ALL that I can, and still do! I have 121.5GB 
 EV> Free on the 250GB HDD tonight.

 EV> A little over 50% used space on the HDD since July 2006. At that 
 EV> rate it will take me 6+ years to fill it up.   (without 
 EV> gettng Windows updates of course)

you've plenty of room to play with :)

)\/(ark