At 10:30 -0400 13/5/04, Michael wrote:
>>For example, it said that it had scanned x trillion files (I do
>>exagerate) and deleted 3.
>>But it does not say which 3 or why.
>>
>>There is no Log that records this information.
>>
>>How do I know that these are not OS-critical files that need to be replaced?
>>
>>Does anyone else have this kind of observation with Virex ?
>
>change your prefs to NOT discard files, only report.
Mike - they ARE set (default settings) in that way! Just to scan,
not to clean.
>Of course you have to manually go through that list of a trillion
>files and find which ones it found errors with, but then you can
>determine whether or not you want to through the files away...
But this is the problem. The summary report says it has found and
deleted the files already.
I can not intervene Too late! There is no recrd of what it has
deleted, nor where from:
Summary report on /*
File(s)
Total files: ........... 278302
Clean: ................. 274754
Not scanned: ........... 3314
Possibly Infected: ..... 3
Cleaned: ............... 0
Deleted: ............... 3
Non-critical Error(s): 4
Why does it delete 3 every time?
And what are these non-critical errors??
>though I have found Virex to be completely accurate in finding virus
>files, I do not entrust any software to delete or install things on
>my drive without my approval. Software -- no software -- is that
>good.
I am with you on this one, that is why I have a concern. Maybe I
should trash the Virex preferences.
I have many other partitions, plus my backup disk attached, and it
always reports:
Scanning /Volumes/Applications/*
Summary report on /Volumes/Applications/*
0 files were on the disk.
Scanning /Volumes/TJH/*
Summary report on /Volumes/TJH/*
0 files were on the disk.
Scanning /Volumes/Music and Video/*
Summary report on /Volumes/Music and Video/*
0 files were on the disk.
Scanning /Volumes/VPC/*
Summary report on /Volumes/VPC/*
0 files were on the disk.
Scanning /Volumes/VRAM/*
Summary report on /Volumes/VRAM/*
0 files were on the disk.
Scanning /Volumes/LaCie 120 Gb/*
Summary report on /Volumes/LaCie 120 Gb/*
0 files were on the disk.
At first, I thought that it meant that there were no problem files.
But maybe it means that it FINDS no files!
How do I know if it has looked at any of these files?
Do you see my reason for concern about Virex ?
regards, Trevor