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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: <0009.9211191448.AA21875@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:08:43 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates) writes:
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- > >point is, however, that SCAN is occasionally not very accurate in determinin
- g
- > >exactly which virus you have.
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- > I understand that, believe me. We will fix any such problems reported
- > to us.
-
- Will you? Any such problems? Let's hope... Because, if memory serves
- correctly, I am reporting such problems to you since about a year...
- Such problems include:
-
- 1) Viruses mentioned in VIRLIST.TXT but never reported by SCAN.
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- 2) Viruses reported by SCAN but never mentioned in VIRLIST.TXT.
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- 3) Viruses mentioned under one name in VIRLIST.TXT, but reported under
- a slightly different name by SCAN.
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- 4) Viruses described with wrong properties in VIRLIST.TXT.
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- 5) Several (often - completely different) viruses reported with one
- and the same name. This is the most dangerous problem, since it causes
- misidentification. As a reply of one of my reports about these, I got
- a very angry reply from John McAfee himself. The reply was posted from
- your account, so you should know about it. It claimed that the viruses
- mentioned by me are actually closely related. Those viruses were
- Number of the Beast, Compiler.1, and Darth Vader. Anybody who has
- bothered to disassemble them knows that they are completely
- different... BTW, SCAN 97 still reports all the three of them as "512
- [512]"... :-(
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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