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SVC 6.0 not rem. by F-PROT206a (PC)

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From: Thomas Kratz
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:01
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Hi everybody,

I think I've found a bug in f-prot 206a.
A week ago I had two guys with their pc's in our office who had
cought the SVC virus in version 6.0.
SCAN V99 reported [SVC] and(!) [SVC 5.0] in the boot sector and on
various .com & .exe files, an information I decided not
to trust, because of the multiple report of infection.
F-PROT found (correctly) SVC 6.0 (4644 bytes), but only on the .com & .exe
files.
After removing the virus (which f-prot claims to do correctly)
all infected files were absolutely identical with the originals, that were
present on security-disks, but knowing that SVC 6.0 does infect the boot-
sector i ran scan again; with the result, that it reports [SVC] and [SVC5.0]
still present in the boot sector.
I removed the virus with CLEAN (V97) [SVC50] and everything was fine.

Now the Questions: Is the above a known bug with F-PROT? If yes, will Frisk
                   fix it in the next release, and when will McAfee get rid
                   of their double reports and get the right names, so one
                   can assume to clean the right virus with CLEAN?

By the way: the virus information of F-PROT says that SVC 6.0 is only a
            .exe & .com infector, which is simply not true!
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