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Article #3145Re: Info Grain of Sand Virus (PC)
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55
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dboer@let.rug.nl (Ale de Boer) writes: > Can anyone give information about the Grain of Sand virus. TBSCANX > noticed this virus while copying a file allegedly containing it. Scans > with McAfee turned up nothing, nor did TBSCAN. I could not find any > information about the GoS virus in VSUMX. A more widely used name for this virus is Maltese Amoeba. In our tests SCAN 97 was able to detect reliably the infected samples, so you probably have a false positive. Just in case, try F-Prot 2.06a. It is important to verify whether you really have this virus or it is only a false positive, since the virus triggers on November 15 and destroys the information on your hard disk. Regards, Vesselin - -- 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ornl!utkcs2!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cert!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Info Grain of Sand Virus (PC) Message-ID: <0009.9211121950.AA09997@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 11 Nov 92 21:55:55 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 21 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu