first virus

Today at the office (yes, Sunday) a rectangular dead area showed up on the 
middle of the screen. Command windows' displays were blacked out in that 
portion of the screen. Some other icons, when moved through the area, 
changed also. The screen background and most programs were unaffected. 
Using pspm2 I couldn't find anything unusual running. Rebooting fixed it.

Now I've come home and found the same problem on the machine here. Clamav 
is only available to eCS at the 91.2 level (though 92.1 is out) but I have 
it running in the background.  ECS 2.0 rc4 throughout.

Is this a common glitch or is there finally an os/2 virus?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:14:51 UTC, ccolby@ipns.com (Craig Colby) wrote:

> Today at the office (yes, Sunday) a rectangular dead area showed up on the

> middle of the screen. Command windows' displays were blacked out in that 
> portion of the screen. Some other icons, when moved through the area, 
> changed also. The screen background and most programs were unaffected. 
> Using pspm2 I couldn't find anything unusual running. Rebooting fixed it.
> 
> Now I've come home and found the same problem on the machine here. Clamav 
> is only available to eCS at the 91.2 level (though 92.1 is out) but I have

> it running in the background.  ECS 2.0 rc4 throughout.
> 
> Is this a common glitch or is there finally an os/2 virus?
> 

I have seen similar when a PM app goes zombie. ClamAV 92.1 is 
available for ECS - I am running it.

-- 
Regards
Dave Saville

Hi!

Craig Colby schrieb:
> Today at the office (yes, Sunday) a rectangular dead area showed up on 
> the middle of the screen. Command windows' displays were blacked out in 
> that portion of the screen. Some other icons, when moved through the 
> area, changed also. The screen background and most programs were 
> unaffected. Using pspm2 I couldn't find anything unusual running. 
> Rebooting fixed it.
> 
> Now I've come home and found the same problem on the machine here. 
> Clamav is only available to eCS at the 91.2 level (though 92.1 is out) 
> but I have it running in the background.  ECS 2.0 rc4 throughout.
> 
> Is this a common glitch or is there finally an os/2 virus?

That is a common raction if a PM application blocks, maybe in the 
Exit-T1 handler. Use something like Watchcat to identify the dead 
Application. This won't fix the problem, but it will help to find the 
originator. You have to reboot anyway. That's PM :-(

Thanks for the info. I'd seen zombies refuse to clear off the screen 
before but never this odd behavior.

As for clamav 92.1 after Dave's comment I found it at 
http://web.os2power.com/yuri/ClamAV.  
I guess Yuri doesn't send his work to Hobbes right away.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:03:09 UTC, lawcolby@ipns.com (Craig Colby) 
wrote:

> Thanks for the info. I'd seen zombies refuse to clear off the screen 
> before but never this odd behavior.
> 
> As for clamav 92.1 after Dave's comment I found it at 
> http://web.os2power.com/yuri/ClamAV.  
> I guess Yuri doesn't send his work to Hobbes right away.
> 

But he does have an RSS feed: http://web.os2power.com/yuri/

-- 
Regards
Dave Saville