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Fox Executables being wiped out nightly
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13/02/2002 05:49:08
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00619220
Message ID:
00619340
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12
>I am dealing with a problem I've never seen before here.
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>I write most of my fox projects to executables on our company's network drive. The programs have been working fine until just this last week, when they keep "decompiling", changing from 50K-100K+ files down to 8K files.
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>The executables each keep losing their main form or program, and pop up a Fox window that says "Do" and looking for an .fxp or .scx file. They remain a Fox program (the registry is untouched), but they're useless. I've been recompiling every program on a daily basis, and I can't figure out what's happening.
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>This happens at odd intervals: it last happened about 9PM last yesterday, before that about 8 AM on the same day, before that about 3:30PM the afternoon before, before that about 7 PM the night before.
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>No traceable process is running at these times, and I don't know what's causing it. Only FoxPro executables are hit, and only those on the network drive.
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>Is there any sort of VFP-specific virus out there?

I have seen something similar. Seems to be a virus. Probably not a VFP-specific virus (who would write for such a small target group?), but a side-effect of the way VFP EXEs are structured.

Hilmar.
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