I do not believe the problem is with a virus, but one is never sure of such
things.

However, the original message neglected to mention one thing.  Does the
computer in fact show the proper "It is now safe to shutdown your computer."

At any rate, there are two conditions that cause Scandisk to run on startup.
 1- If the shutdown was not clean  2- If disk errors were detected before the
prior shutdown.  These conditions are set in VFAT when the system is running
and cleared by ScanDisk.

If you insist that you get a clean shutdown, then I would do a thorough check
of the disk drive, very thorough.  You may have a bad disk.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Barnes [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:10 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Cc:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] OT : WIN 98 comes up with not shut down properly

Denys Beauchemin wrote:

> At first glance, you could disable the scandisk behaviour by simply changing
> the autoscan setting in msdos.sys to 0.
>
> autoscan=0

If you use AOL you may have the PWSteal.Trojan virus.  This will also prevent
your machine from shutting down correctly.  We have several users who have been
infected with this virus.  For info go to:
http://service1.symantec.com/support/nav.nsf/docid/2000012318073306



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