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Virus that removes access to floppy drive??

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voyager9355

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Mar 20, 2002
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Hello all,
I have a couple users experiencing this problem....out of the clear blue, they no longer have "permission" to the floppy drive on their PCs. They both get an error dialog something like "you do not have permission to Drive A. Contact your system Administrator" One is running W2K, one NT4 WKSTN. There is a new virus warning posted at symantec (W32.Libi)that attempts to write to a floppy if it finds one. I checked for registry entries that are supposed to be present with the above mentioned virus, and no entries were found. I'm stumped. Found nothing at MS either. Any ideas anyone? Not sure if it is, in fact, a virus, it just seems fishy enough that it COULD be. Thanks
 
Does the Administrator have access to the A: drive? If not, then I would suspect a virus or a registry corruption; otherwise, it just may be a permission problem.


James P. Cottingham

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I have done so much with so little
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to do anything with nothing.
 
One of my users has updated and scanned numerous times, and come up clean. The other just experienced this for the first time today. (btw, I did search Symantec, and found the same article you supplied a link to, thanks!)

It drives me crazy when I can't figure something out...any other ideas?
 
Hmmm... If we've ruled out viruses, then as 2ffat suggested, log in as Admin locally and try it? Also, try several "known good" floppy disks. If neither of those help, perhaps swapping out the floppy drive and/or drive cable with a different machine will yield answers.
-Steve
 
Ask you administrator if they enforced a group policy disallowing access to the floppy drive. This can be done using Policy Editor from Microsoft.

AVChap
 
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