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from: Roy McNeill
date: 1997-02-18 23:25:56
subject: virus 95

I'm no expert on this opsys, except to note that on a 486/33 with

8M ram it runs like a dead dog.



That said, I had fun on the one W95 pc in the workshop today. I

tried to start PCAnywhere95 (pain in neck, but that's another

story) and was told that one of its DLLs was missing. So I fired up

Explorer (son of that useless fossil File Manager) to look for it.



Clicking on a subdir normally results in a file list appearing in

less than a second. Clicking on PCA's subdir gave a file list, but

each file took about six seconds to appear, the whole list took

several minutes, much disk thrashing happening the whole time. This

effect was repeatable, and was seen in PCA's subdirs as well. It

was not seen in other subdirs selected at random.



I ran PCA's Uninstall program. It suffered from the same slow

disease, and took 25 minutes to run.



I then ran



--- PPoint 1.88


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