This sounds like a variation of a virus I have seen in the
past, are you running a current version of an anti-virus
program?  Most anti-virus software is updated monthly.  You
will need to boot from a known clean diskette and run the
anti-virus software from a known clean diskette.

Backup everything of any importance to either diskette or
tape.

Have you run scandisk?  If the FAT is corrupted, scandisk
will attempt to repair it.  If Dr. Solomon crashes, scandisk
probably will also, but its worth a try.


George Kaufman wrote:

> For the past month my hard drives (especiall and probably
> starting with
> my Syjet discs) have picked up strange subdirectories that
> consist of a
> very long chain of
> >>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/
> >/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>.  This
> makes searching for a file very difficult.
> Has anyone seen something like this?  Might it be a virus
> (I get an
> error message, "This program has performed an illegal
> operation and will
> be shut down.  If the problem persists, contact the
> program vendor,"
> when Dr. Solomon searches my hard drive?
> I'd appreciate any help I can get.  Thanks,
>
> George--

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