re: Windows ME Fixes Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at 3:26 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) That is your preference! I bet you either have not looked at the DELINDEX.BAT file or you do not understand DOS commands. But the fact that McAfee flags the file as a possible Trojan does not make it one. The DelIndex.bat file has been in use, for about two years. It was only four or five months ago that McAfee suddenly started flagging and DELETING the DelIndex.bat file as being "bad". It does it because the file contains an unusual form of the DOS DelTree command. It just so happens that one minor Trojan also uses this DOS command, and McAfee AV decided to use that as a signature of a virus. Their rational is that Windows users do not use DOS commands and they do not need to be using DOS DelTree commands. The first time, after that particular McAfee update, that I ran a full scan on my local server, it deleted without warning most of my maintenance batch files, plus it deleted hundreds of archived files for old programs and batch files that I had written many years ago. I lost a lot of work, it took me weeks to recreate the files. I no longer run or recommend McAfee AV for this reason and have had people take it off of their systems. It now deletes valid DOS Batch files with specific DOS commands in them. It even deleted a number of documentation files on DOS usage from my archives. And if you will bother to look at the more recent updates to the Windows ME Fixes files, you will note that its is now point out that McAfee will now flag the file as having a Trojan, something that most of the other AV programs do not do. Written in response to: re: Windows ME Fixes (Mike Allan: Monday, March 29, 2004 at 9:59 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] seemingly random high processor activity (Sheldon Lee: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 6:05 pm) re: seemingly random high processor activity (Jack Gulley: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 6:59 pm) re: seemingly random high processor activity (Steve: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 8:26 pm) I agree...excellent! (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 8:40 pm) re: seemingly random high processor activity (Sheldon Lee: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 8:48 pm) re: seemingly random high processor activity (jabuck: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 9:48 pm) Windows ME Fixes (Jack Gulley: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 10:19 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 10:52 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Steve: Fri, Jan 31, 2003, 9:21 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (Geraldine Robredo: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 5:33 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Robert: Fri, May 30, 2003, 12:42 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Malcolm: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 5:59 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (Jack Gulley: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 8:15 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Ian O'Neill: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 6:46 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (WhitPhil: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 7:30 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (Ian O'Neill: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 4:35 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (WhitPhil: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 6:27 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (Jack Gulley: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 6:47 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (John Doty: Sun, Feb 15, 2004, 10:48 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Ian O'Neill: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 7:42 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (WhitPhil: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 8:19 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (Marleece: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 6:41 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Mike Allan: Mon, Mar 29, 2004, 9:59 pm) re: Windows ME Fixes (Jack Gulley: Tue, Mar 30, 2004, 3:26 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (somebody: Sat, Apr 24, 2004, 9:29 am) re: Windows ME Fixes (John Harbin: Sat, Jun 19, 2004, 9:47 am) re: seemingly random high processor activity (Carl D: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 10:12 pm) re: seemingly random high processor activity (Patrick Thompson: Fri, Jan 31, 2003, 3:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum