Strange filepro event

[Nancy Palmquist]

Jose,
We know filepro did not do it but since it affected my filePro customer 
I took some liberty and suggested it might affect other filepro 
customers.  It is not like Credit is not an unlikely prefix for a 
filepro output or process table.

But it was a bit weird and gave me a chuckle.

Nancy
On 2/27/2018 11:33 AM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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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