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- From: aryeh@mcafee.com (McAfee Associates)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: INFO SOUGHT: FILLED virus (PC)
- Message-ID: <0011.9212221358.AA03720@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:49:06 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Hello Ken McVa,
-
- You write:
- [...deleted...]
- >When SCANV was run, it warned of FILLED three times, after the format
- ^^^^^^
- Filler virus, perhaps?
-
- >- - local rumour has it FILLED resides on an area of the disk DOS
- >doesn't read - at any rate, after three warnings, the system was shut
- >down.
- [...deleted...]
-
- When SCAN is run in the presence of certain other anti-viral programs,
- such as Central Point Anti Virus, it can erroneously report the presence
- of viruses because if the other program uses the same piece of code SCAN
- does to detect the virus but does not hide that code in memory.
-
- Regards,
-
- Aryeh Goretsky
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