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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: KEY Press virus & McAfee v97 (PC)
- Message-ID: <0006.9211171913.AA17490@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:51:44 GMT
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- mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates) writes:
-
- > >Am I sure about -what-? That SCAN 97 does not detect Commander Bomber
- > >reliably? Yes, I am sure about it. It doesn't detect it reliably. It
- > >misses this virus in some of the infected files.
-
- > But it picks it up in some. Which means the programmers are at least on
- > the right track, as far as a making a detector goes. I'll ask them to look
-
- The above remark would be fine if we were discussing a beta version of
- a program, or a theoretical approach how to detect this virus. But,
- hey, we are discussing a widely used known-virus scanner! In this
- particular case it means that it is not able to reliably detect this
- virus! Any comments about it "being on the right track" is simply
- irrelevant! Fortunately, the virus is not spread in the wild - it is
- available mainly on the virus exchange BBSes... On the top of that, a
- bug in it causes it to crash from time to time...
-
- > at the detector for the it, then. If they have any questions, can they
- > contact you directly by email?
-
- I really cannot understand this question?! You know very well that
- both you and Igor Grebert are keeping in touch with me by e-mail!
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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