Has anyone looked into the issue (or did I just miss it) of the current version of the McAfee Anti-Virus program (OnLine update) now finding the DELINDEX.BAT file to be infected with a Trojan and deleting it. Noticed that a full AV scan last week on a friends system detected an old copy of the DELINDEX.BAT file as infected. Ignored. Tonight after updating the AV files on the system I attempted to look at the DELINDEX.BAT file on the C:\ drive with NotePad, and McAfee detected it as being a Trojan and deleted the file! Tried to download a new copy from DELINDEX.BAT and McAfee deleted that copy too. Was forced to disable the AV in order to download a copy. It was OK and matched a copy on diskette that I saved months ago. Not nice of McAfee to pick on DELINDEX.BAT for no good reason and just delete it. I assumed burzurq would be hot on it.

Check this link to see why... http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/153968.html I also have that prog for my 98 machine...I dont run mcafee on it tho. I don't know how to tell mcafee to ignore since it just deletes the file like you said. This is where I got my copy of delindex from: http://www.mesich.com/

hello mcafee is a virus well not litterally. but its not to good. i used to use it it would do odd stuff like your getting and miss real viruses.you could try avg but it misses trojins. jmho

Friend has decided not to renew subscription to McAfee the end of February, if McAfee does not completely resolve this issue and others before then. The main issue is not just with this one batch file. It has also deleted about 20 other batch files used to maintain the system. In addition, it will delete one of several large data files from time to time. Not program files, but large data files generated by several programs. McAfee's only response to e-mail about the problem has been to respond that these are "false detections" and have never responded to requests to explain how to prevent it from just automatically deleting these valuable data files. It takes a lot of time to regenerate these data files and it is now necessary to disable McAfee when working with these files online, and can no longer do a full virus scan as it deletes them sometimes. Pissed does not describe the reaction to their response (or lack of it). I quit using it last year, when it started deleting files with virus in them without warning. I lost a lot of e-mail as they were stored in a single file, and a virus scan would see the virus and delete the whole file. Weeks of saved and unread e-mail lost, just because one of them had a harmless virus (on my system at least) in it and I had not had a chance to delete just the one e-mail.