Re: Virus killer

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From: Volker Soehnitz
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:12

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>There is a new virus included in some demos distributed in the MausNet.
>It sometimes renames *all* the Files of a partition to 'ARSCHnnn.xxx'!
>(Arsch is German and means ass :-( ). No viruskiller is able to detect
>this virus, because the programmer of the demo included it!

The filename was DISKUS.ZIP and it was 82514 Bytes long. (As far as I know,
there was one more Programm in MausNet, which has the same result. It's name
was DISK_MEM.PRG)

But this has nothing to do with a virus!!! Both programms will not infect any
other file.

        ciao  | /
              |/olker

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From: Volker_Soehnitz@ac.maus.de (Volker Soehnitz)
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Subject: Re: Virus killer
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Date: 14 Dec 92 22:12:00 GMT
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