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Re: KEY Press virus & McAfee v97 (PC)

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:03
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bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:

> > We've reproduced the problem of SCAN reporting a variant of the
> > KeyPress virus multiple times in a file and will be fixing this in a
> > subsequent version of SCAN.

> While you are at it, please also have in mind that:

[long list of multiple viruses reported for a file infected by a
single virus deleted]

I must have been asleep when I have written that! The list is far from
complete; I really don't know why I have missed the rest of it... :-(
Anyway, I apologize for the inconvenience and here is the rest of the
list:

Shirley.* are detected as HS [HS] and Shirley [Shl].
Something is detected as Something [658] and Feist [Fst].
StarDot.789 is detected as Dot-789 [789] and V801 [V801].
Swedish_Boys.Headache is detected as Why win [Why] and 1385 [1385].
Timid.306.* are detected as Timid305 [Timid] and Timid [Tmd].
Tumen.1092 is detected as Tumen [Tum] and Tumen V2.0 [Tum2].
VCL.Venom is reported to contain twice VCL [Con].
Vienna.849 and Vienna.BetaBoys.* are detected as Parasite new [Par]
and FamilyM [FM].
Vienna.Violator.B.3.C is detected as 1241 [1241] and Lisbon [Lisbon].
Violetta.3840 is detected as COM [CM] and Shirley [Shl].

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.0 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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