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- From: mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
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- Subject: CLEAN removing Jerusalem (Was: Re: Jerusalem (Israeli) Virus (PC))
- Message-ID: <0016.9301221631.AA12947@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 14 Jan 93 18:17:09 GMT
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- Hello Vesselin,
-
- You write:
-
- >Due to the infection method that this virus employs, it destroys EXE
- >files with internal overlay structure (e.g., WordPerfect). Such files
- >will crash when executed. They will still crash after disinfection,
- >although McAfee's Clean does not warn you about that. If you have an
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >outbreak of this virus, the best solution is to delete all infected
- >files and to replace them with clean copies.
-
- CLEAN-UP does have a limited ability to check a Jerusalem virus
- infected file and warn the user that the virus can not safely be
- removed. It will then ask the user if he (or she) wants to
- overwrite-and-delete the file instead.
-
- Regards,
-
- Aryeh Goretsky
- McAfee Associates Technical Support
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