Please see

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172786
Accesses my floppy drive when using INPUT_FILTER

It happens to me all the time (Doxygen 1.4.2, Windows 98SE).  It happened in Doxygen 1.3.x too.  However, Dimitri sees no sign of it.

If there really is a virus scanner, virus, spyware or whatever causing this, I don't see why it would be singling out this opportunity.

How many of you people are bitten by the same bug, and under which OS versions?

Stewart.

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Stewart Gordon schrieb am Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:46:19 +0100:
> Please see
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172786
> Accesses my floppy drive when using INPUT_FILTER
>
> It happens to me all the time (Doxygen 1.4.2, Windows 98SE).  It happened in Doxygen 1.3.x too.  However, Dimitri sees no sign of it.
>
> If there really is a virus scanner, virus, spyware or whatever causing this, I don't see why it would be singling out this opportunity.

Disclamer: I'm not a Windows user

Some libs that provide functions like "save as" or "load" request a media and/or device descovery whenever they are executed.

An API-spy or debugger might help.

Thomas

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Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Some libs that provide functions like "save as" or "load" request a media and/or device descovery whenever they are executed.
<snip>

I imagine Doxygen merely runs the filter rather than loading it.

Stewart.

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"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d4kv4s$vpp$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Please see
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172786
> Accesses my floppy drive when using INPUT_FILTER
>
> It happens to me all the time (Doxygen 1.4.2, Windows 98SE).  It happened in Doxygen 1.3.x too.  However, Dimitri sees no sign of it.
>
> If there really is a virus scanner, virus, spyware or whatever causing this, I don't see why it would be singling out this opportunity.
>
> How many of you people are bitten by the same bug, and under which OS versions?
>
> Stewart.
>
> -- 
> My e-mail is valid but not my primary mailbox.  Please keep replies on the 'group where everyone may benefit.

This kind of thing used to happen to me when a process ran a child process. Try turning off all the virus protection utilities on your system like Norton etc.

Ben Hinkle wrote:
<snip>
> This kind of thing used to happen to me when a process ran a child process. Try turning off all the virus protection utilities on your system like Norton etc. 

It would seem a strange coincidence if Norton and McAfee both have the same bug here.  But having experimented a bit, it happens when the 'Scan floppies on' 'Access' option is set.  So obviously the essence of the bug is that McAfee somehow thinks the floppy is being accessed for no apparent reason.

So I guess it's down to finding out which API Doxygen uses to launch the filter program, and if there's an alternative.  (What does Doxywizard use to launch Doxygen, for that matter?  Indeed, what do things like make and the very command prompt use?)

Stewart.

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It'll be GetVolumeInformation()

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d4njb2$jka$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Ben Hinkle wrote:
> <snip>
>> This kind of thing used to happen to me when a process ran a child process. Try turning off all the virus protection utilities on your system like Norton etc.
>
> It would seem a strange coincidence if Norton and McAfee both have the same bug here.  But having experimented a bit, it happens when the 'Scan floppies on' 'Access' option is set.  So obviously the essence of the bug is that McAfee somehow thinks the floppy is being accessed for no apparent reason.
>
> So I guess it's down to finding out which API Doxygen uses to launch the filter program, and if there's an alternative.  (What does Doxywizard use to launch Doxygen, for that matter?  Indeed, what do things like make and the very command prompt use?)
>
> Stewart.
>
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Matthew wrote:
> It'll be GetVolumeInformation()
<snip top of upside-down reply>

I downloaded the source the other day, and there was no sign of a call to that function at all.

I found in the end that Doxygen is indeed using popen and pclose, and by a simple test program that this method is triggering the McAfee bug. OTOH CreateProcess doesn't trigger it - so maybe Doxygen could be changed to use that.

Stewart.

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