[Ham-Computers] Win98...not convinced this is a virus

Sun, 5 Jan 2003 03:39:54 -0500

If your machine craps out for what ever reason while a file/s is open
and depending on what the OS is doing with the file, you will go into
scan disk when you reboot. Win 98 or XP's decision process as to when it
should or shouldn't go into scan disk is rudimentary at best.  It has
very limited smarts when it comes to this. Sheesh, it has limited smarts
at best but so be it.

Also by your machine crashing, you may have created a bad inode, which
is no problem. Scan disk will correct this. If you have any files that
are open that are "read only", you will *not* go into scan disk when you
re boot. There is no reason to. Only when you are writing to a file or a
file got corrupted when you crashed or shut down inappropriately,
will the Microsoft  OS call up scan disk.  The MS  OS wants to close off
ALL open files before it actually shuts off !  It will do this, if you
shut down properly.

If you want to use an OS with real intelligence and strength then switch
to Mac and use their *new* OS X operating system. It truly is light
years ahead of 98 or XP or XP pro. You do not have to worry about such
nonsense. But that is  another story for another thread.  It is a UNIX
OS with a user friendly GUI on top. Now that's an OS with *Industrial
Strength*. No dumb Microsoft *system* crashes. The OS will *never*
crash. 
No security issues, no virus issues. And on and on  etc.

Anyway, I hope that some of the above helps you understand your dilemma
better.
My suggestion, ONLY shut off the "autoscan" as a temporary measure !!!
Do not make this anything beyond that !!!!!  Under certain conditions,
"autoscan" is very useful and other times it has no real reason to be
running. As I said, its decision process is rudimentary at best.  

Al Simcoe

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of refmon
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Win98...not convinced this is a virus

Hi,

Thanks to all who have replied...the Autoscan=0 change has shut the
scandisk
off, gladly, as the next problem would have been a bad enter key.  While
I'm
happy to mask the problem, I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on why this
sort of BS happens to begin with.

thanks again

John Collins
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Holyoak" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Win98...not convinced this is a virus

> According to Microsoft it does:
>
> "Disable Scandisk After Bad Shutdown
> When your system fails to shutdown properly, Windows 98 automatically
> runs ScanDisk the next time that the system loads. When you're
> troubleshooting shutdown problems, the last thing you want to deal
with
> is ScanDisk coming up every time that you restart the system. Enabling
> this setting prevents ScanDisk from running and is the equivalent of
> adding the line Autoscan=0 to the Msdos.sys file." -
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinpr
o00/
html/w9p0095.asp
>
> (This also answers the question of how to keep it from running.)
>
> - Trevor
>
> Al Simcoe wrote:
> >
> > Anytime your computer is not "properly" shutdown (as is the case
when it
> >
> > crashes and you have to reboot it), it will automatically run
Scandisk
> > to make sure nothing's wrong
> >
> > Not every time. Only depending  upon certain conditions.
> >
> > Al Simcoe
> >
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