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Re: VIRSCAN detects Yankee-Doodle 2885 (PC)

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From: John Mechalas
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 00:40
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chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
>> From:    mechalas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas)
>
>Sorry for the delay in responding!  I was out last week on vacation...
>
>>    1) Does VIRSCAN have a tendancy to cause a false positive
>>       for Yankee Doodle?  I think we really do have a virus, but
>>       I'd like to check this option anyway.
>
>No!  We know of no 2885 false positives at all, so if you've gotten
>reports in multiple files, it's almost certainly a real infection.
>(If you'd like to uuencode and send me an infected file, I'd be glad
>to verify the exact identity.)

No need to.  I believe you.  :) The reason I originally asked was
because it was always teh same three files that registered the
infection.  Since then, it has struck again on another PC, and this
time a new file was infected, so I would agree with you in that we
have real viruses. :) Thankx for the info.

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Subject: Re: VIRSCAN detects Yankee-Doodle 2885 (PC)
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