Jude -- there are no keys for Jaws for DOS and I use Macaffey for virous
check with no problems.
George
----- Original Message -----
From: DaShiell, Jude T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 3:01 PM
>What's current compatible virus protection software with JFW? Also, was
>Macaffey's virus shield or virus scan software responsible for the previous
>incompatibility? I think those packages and the windows and dos versions
of
>jaws were on this system when it was upgraded to windows 98. Afterwards I
>couldn't get jaws for dos running again. Possibly something happened to
the
>keys for jaws for dos in that process but what did the actual damage I
don't
>know now and am in no mind to speculate. One thing I've thought about was
>that if virscan trashes keys in the root directory it might be useful to
>have a c:\jfw32\safe directory where copies of the key file reside and then
>see if virscan destroys the key files in both the root directory and the
>c:\jfw32\safe directories. If only the root files are destroyed by its
>operation, it might be possible to have jfwrest.bat in c:\jfw32\safe which
>does three tests before restoring the key files to the root directory.
>1) test for presence of file in c:\jfw32\safe directory; if successful
move
>onto next test, if not write message advising user to reinstall jfw and
>exit.
>2) test for existence of jfw key file in root directory and if found move
>onto next test;
>otherwise copy c:\jfw32\safe\jfwxxxx.dat to root directory and exit.
>3) binary file compare two jfw key files in c:\jfw32\safe and root for
>corruption.
>if virscan leaves the one alone in c:\jfw32\safe, overwrite root directory
>file with safe file directory key file.
>
>Of course none of this may be feasible if the real problem is virus shield.
>
>
>
>
>-
>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
-
Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
