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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Need some help disinfecting NOP virus (PC)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:18:37 GMT
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- BERGERA@Citadel.edu (Andy Berger - IRM User Support 2-6996) writes:
-
- > We are experiencing an outbreak of NOP viruses on our campus. Does
- > anyone have any recent experience with disinfecting this virus from
- > floppies and hard drives? How about any suggestions on doing this
- > easily to a large population of several hundred users? Are McAfee's
- > SCAN, and M-disk the best utilities to do this? Are there any others
- > which work better?
-
- All I know is that there is a boot sector infector which SCAN calls
- like that. Unfortunately, SCAN is very unreliable in identifying
- viruses exactly. On the top of that, I am unable to test it on boot
- sector viruses, because I don't have them in live form - only as
- binary dumps of the infected boot sectors.
-
- So, I have no clue what the "NOP virus" actually is. Could you please
- try to run F-Prot 2.06a on an infected diskette and tell me the
- results?
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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