Virus Warining - Not Right..

[Somebla]

Sometimes when I work with the Total Commander I get a warning saying that Total Commander has found a Virus and will now shut down.

I checked with a anti-virus and found nothing.

Is this a bug ? and is their any way to turn the warning off ?

Thanks.

[Maxwish]

Do a CRC check of your totalcmd.exe

if you're using v5.51 the MD5 should be:
C8525833A82A132D1553AE4BD10127DE TOTALCMD.EXE

[ghisler(Author)]

This error is shown if the built-in self test in Total Commander
fails. This can have several reasons:
- A new virus which is unknown to your scanner (yes, this happened a lot when the CiH virus was new!)
- The program was modified in any way, by an icon editor, patch tool etc.
- You have a bad memory chip (RAM)
- Total Commander doesn't have read access to its directory
- Parts of an older Totalcmd version were still in memory

Some users experienced this problem after adding a new RAM chip where the chip timing was wrong (or the board was overclocked). A single bit change will cause a CRC error...

[Somebla]

Do a CRC check of your totalcmd.exe

if you're using v5.51 the MD5 should be:
C8525833A82A132D1553AE4BD10127DE TOTALCMD.EXE

How can I do a CRC check ?
And what do you mean by saying MD5 ?

[djk]

You can check it in two ways:

1. Create in TC directory a file with 'md5' extention e.g.: test.md5.
Copy the line:

Code: Select all

C8525833A82A132D1553AE4BD10127DE TOTALCMD.EXE

into it and save the file.
Press Enter on this file in TC. You shoud get info if the TOTALCMD.EXE file is OK or there is an error.

2. Select TOTALCMD.EXE and then press in TC menu:
Files\Create CRC Checksums (SFV Format)
then
Check MD5 option and press OK
You will get a new file TOTALCMD.md5. View it. It should be the same like the line above.

[Somebla]

Ok I checked and I got:

Wrong CRC: TOTALCMD.EXE

Errors: 1

Is thier a way to fix that ?

Thanks

[wanderer]

Is thier a way to fix that ?

I don't know if the other guys have a better idea but reinstalling TCmd may solve the problem.

[Maxwish]

Ok I checked and I got:
Wrong CRC: TOTALCMD.EXE
Errors: 1

this means the totalcmd.exe on your harddrive is not the same as the original from the total commander installation.

Replacing it is the only thing that will help, but you must think of why the program was corrupted:
- make sure you download the Total Commander Program from a trusted source (see www.ghisler.com for download locations). You may have downloaded a modified version of TC....
- it could be infected by a (new) virus: so updating and using your virusscanner to scan your complete computer is a good idea.
- maybe your harddrive is failing: use windows Scandisk to check your harddrive. If your harddrive is a couple of years old, you might want to use the advanced scanning options and scan for bad sectors (= scan disk surface).

[Hacker]

Don't forget it might be a badly programmed crack, too.



HTH
Roman

[AlleyKat]

If I may add a comment, too...

Use Trend Micro HouseCall free online virusscanner.
Works very well alongside H+BEDV AntiVir free personal virusscanner.
And remember to scan your systems every once in a while! Virus is a plague, scanning the cure...

[deus-ex]

Virus is a plague, scanning the cure...

...unplug the machine and walk away (Spiderman - The game TM) is the redemption.

[Coco]

Don't forget it might be a badly programmed crack, too.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 29-07-2003 14:45:02 +0000 Hacker wrote:

H> Don't forget it might be a badly programmed crack, too.

Yeah, nice translation of Christian's politically correct "the program was modified in any way, by an icon editor, patch tool etc." to real life language %).

2Somebla
I'm sorry to say it, but if it's truth you'll have this warnings and shut downs all the time you'll use "patched by icon editor" TOTALCMD.EXE.[/face]

[Maxwish]

- make sure you download the Total Commander Program from a trusted source (see www.ghisler.com for download locations). You may have downloaded a modified version of TC....

I thought this was also a quite politically correct way of saying it...