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In article <gbPQz7200WB4A1u1sF@andrew.cmu.edu> hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes:
$I have a question on the Jeruselum (sp?) virus. I heard that it 's destructive
$only when an illegal copy of a certain program is presented in the system, is
$this right? I have cured two computers with this virus in a mattter of minutes.
$The virus didn't seem to do any damage to the two computer even though the virus had lived quite a while.

   I've only run across one Jerusalem infection, though it was on several
computers as it was spread across a network with poor security.  I'm not a
virus expert, so I don't know if this was the only Jerusalem strain or if
others might be slightly different.  There are many sources for virus
information if you're interested - try looking in comp.virus, for example.

   It infected programs regardless of whether they were infected or not.
Once a program had been infected a large number of times (I think somewhere
in the 10-12 range), it would stop working properly (return to DOS without
running or hang the machine, usually).  I managed to get rid of it without
harm to almost all of the files it had infected; McAfee's CLEAN, however,
reported it was unable to remove it from two files (one was Lotus 1-2-3)
and had to overwrite and delete them.
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