I had a client user Microsoft Security Essentials and she got hit with a virus type attack last week. Suddenly her machine started reporting she had all types of viruses and bad sectors so she called me in a panic. Turns out she got hit with one of those Anti-Virus viruses that makes it looks like …

That's odd. Then it tried to shell out it said the drive that I mounted was not available. I will try it again.

I'm trying to get an old DOS program to work within DosBOX but found an interesting problem. From within the DOS application we can press ALT-F1 and it will launch another DOS application using a shell command. When that other application launches, it looks like it's launching CMD instead of DosBOX …

Norton sucks McAfee sucks I would recommend ESET's NOD32 for your Anti-Virus system. It's slick, fast, doesn't slow you down and does an awesome job.

I have a DOS application that does not use the mouse at all, so I want to disable it all together. Right now when a user clicks on the DOS application the mouse disappears and we have to press CTRL-F10 to get it back. Is there a setting in the conf file where I can just totally disable the mouse so …