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Re: Filler virus - Need Help! (PC)

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From: McAfee Associates
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 06:27
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Hello Gilles,

you write:
>I just find out that Filler virus has invaded my computer system. The
>Scan Test (SCAN 8.9V97 - McAfee) sometime detect it and other time it
>can't. Is there any other thing I can do to get rid of this damned
>virus...

While there is an actual Filler virus from Europe (?), we have not had
any actual reports of the virus, other than the initial disk that was
send to us.  However, it is fairly common for the Filler virus to be
reported in memory due to a conflict between VIRUSCAN (SCAN) and other
anti-viral programs if they use the same "search string" to detect the
virus but the other anti-viral program does not hide the search string
in memory by ciphering or otherwise encrypting it.

I would recommend that you check your PC to see if any other
anti-viral programs are running and if so, disable them and reboot
your system.  If the virus is no longer reported by SCAN then it is a
false alarm.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
Technical Support

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