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Article #39478TOPS and Interferon virus report
From: Lyman Taylor
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 07:15
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 07:15
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Help!
I recently ran interferon 3.1 on my TOPS 2.1 updater disk
and got a report back that virus type 003 was reported on the TOPS file. I
know the TOPS file isn't your everyday kind of file ( however checking the
the 2.0 disk I got no such report ).
report:
Virus type 003 "SNEAK" Virus
Hardisk:
Systems Folder:
TOPS
from documentation:
"003 A SENAK virs. This is a virus that adds it's code to a
common System folder file and changes it's type to INIT so
that it is run at boot time. Type 003 is a generic "Virus
sniffer" that detects if common Systems folder files have been
adulterated in this way. If you get a type 003 virus, ... "
I thought that TOPS was an INIT?!?
Perplexed
Lyman S. Taylor lyman@eos.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center or
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!labrea!eos!lyman From: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: TOPS and Interferon virus report Message-ID: <2932@eos.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 89 07:15:04 GMT References: <4035@ttidca.TTI.COM> <11179@ut-emx.UUCP> <7494@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 33