Strange filepro event

[Jose Lerebours]

not sure how this is an "strange filePro event" since it is more of a 
"intrusive antivirus program" ... Perhaps, this program has a "white 
list" where anything in ~filepro ~fp is given a pass?

lol, I am sure I am gonna get it for even thinking that a white list may 
exist as the list itself could be compromised and hide viruses ... what 
a vicious cycle.



On 02/27/2018 11:25 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> Fellow filepro Users,
>
> I just had a customer call that is using a Windows Server for 
> filepro.  They reported that an error indicated a file was not found 
> which turned out to be a file called "CREDITFM.prc".
>
> We looked further and the "CREDITFM.OUT" was also missing as was 
> another form and process called "CREDIT2.prc" and "CREDIT2.out"
>
> We searched further and it seems every filepro process and output that 
> started with the letters "CREDIT" were removed.  They had such files 
> in two different filepro databases.
>
> My guess is that these files were somehow tagged as possible virus 
> files and maybe removed automatically or a user somewhere was queried 
> about removal and agreed.  It is unlikely that a user searched out 
> these files and deleted them for sport.
>
> I am usually not surprised by this when I see filepro files 
> disappear.  I had zero length files deleted - usually DATA files which 
> you don't notice until you try to change the map or expand the file.
>
> But if you have a customer on a windows server and files of this type 
> disappear maybe this will save you some time checking it out.
>
> I do not have the name of the virus scanner they use.  The user was 
> not familiar with that part of the system.
>
> Nancy
>
>

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