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Article #3044Re: VIRSCAN detects Yankee-Doodle 2885 (PC)
From: John Mechalas
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 00:40
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. - -- John Mechalas [This space intentionally left blank] mechalas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Purdue University Computing Center Help put a ban on censorship General Consulting #include disclaimer.h
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.gtech.com!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: mechalas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: VIRSCAN detects Yankee-Doodle 2885 (PC) Message-ID: <0013.9210061455.AA23896@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 4 Oct 92 00:40:08 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 25 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu