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- From: cz1jed@orac.sunderland-poly.ac.uk (J.EDWARDS)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: F-Prot's (v2.05) memory scanning. (PC)
- Message-ID: <0003.9211161950.AA15221@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:44:40 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- After hours of failing to get Windows to install, the owner suddenly
- announced he thought his computer might be infected. I ran F-Prot
- straight away and sure enough it announced it had detected 'Stoned' in
- memory. I booted from my clean floppy and when running F-Prot again
- it claimed the hard-disk was infected with not 'Stoned' but
- 'Michaelangelo'. I assumed the disk must be infected with both but
- let F-Prot clean 'Michaelangelo' anyway, expecting the boot sector to
- now become infected with 'Stoned'. (That would be right, wouldn't
- it?) However after this cleaning, and clean booting again, F-Prot
- declared the disk clean.
-
- Q's 1) Could his hard disk still infected with 'Stoned' and/or
- 'Michaelangelo' and F-Prot can't detect either for some
- reason?
-
- or 2) Was F-Prot's detection of 'Stoned' in memory actually a
- mis-identification of 'Michaelangelo'?
-
- Jonathan Edwards - MSc. Scientific Computing
- University of Sunderland - England
-