keypress virus pops up and down.Help!!

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From: che358w
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:52

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Hi
  I have an aunt who has a confuser that has contracted the key press virus. I
decided that since they are always getting viruses to install vshield93 in the
autoexec file. All this file does is prompt, path and run mouse.com and win.com.
I inserted vsheild before win.com and it found key in memory. I booted off a
floppy and scanned with scanv93. (all files). nothing was found. I moved the
vshield command up before mouse.com and this time nothing was found. After
windows executed I started vhield and still it didn't find anything. It's
as though keypress pops up at a specific point and then dispears again
almost straight away.
  Can anyone tell me if this is expected behaviour for keypress and how I
can find it on the hard disk?

Thanks so much.
Samantha Lane .
che358w@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

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Subject: keypress virus pops up and down.Help!!
Message-ID: <1992Jul23.195204.89498@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:52:04 +1000
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