[THIN] Re: Floppy drive scans when user browses windows explorer or other file/open dialogue boxes
- From: Michel Roth <mrdizzz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:38:04 +0100
I had a the same problem once. I provided a "net use a: /delete" shortcut to
users if they found the "sweet mechanical melodies" to be too irritating.
2006/1/26, Joe Grainger <JAG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Thank you very much for the thought Andrew, its much appreciated.
>
> Yes, we have Viruscan 4.5.1 on win9x machines.
>
> I did test disabling the AV software.
>
> This did not change the behaviour of the local floppy disk drive which
> still tried to either check if a floppy disk is present or retrieve
> data from files on the disk.
>
> Im not in a position to say with 100% confidence that this is an "OS"
> thingy, but tests so far are leaning towards our builds of 9x having
> something included that is the root cause of the issue. (Yes, we are
> running viruscan 8 on the 2k/xp machines which dont have the same problem).
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> >>> dogers@xxxxxxxxx 25/01/2006 16:36 >>>
> On 25/01/06, Joe Grainger < JAG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Running tests on an XP SP2 PC, with program neighbourhood v9.150,
> > no floppy drive scans.
> >
> > Browsing "My Computer" on a 9x client with v9.150 of program
> > neighbourhood, the floppy drive is scanned.
> >
>
> Are you sure its an OS thing?? We have exactly the same thing - Win95
> clients use Virusscan 4.5.1 which scans *floppies* on access, whereas
> 2k/xp use Virusscan 7.1, which scans *files* on access.
>
> Just a thought!
>
> Andrew
>
>
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