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mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates) writes:

> >point is, however, that SCAN is occasionally not very accurate in determinin
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> >exactly which virus you have.

> I understand that, believe me.  We will fix any such problems reported
> to us.

Will you? Any such problems? Let's hope... Because, if memory serves
correctly, I am reporting such problems to you since about a year...
Such problems include:

1) Viruses mentioned in VIRLIST.TXT but never reported by SCAN.

2) Viruses reported by SCAN but never mentioned in VIRLIST.TXT.

3) Viruses mentioned under one name in VIRLIST.TXT, but reported under
a slightly different name by SCAN.

4) Viruses described with wrong properties in VIRLIST.TXT.

5) Several (often - completely different) viruses reported with one
and the same name. This is the most dangerous problem, since it causes
misidentification. As a reply of one of my reports about these, I got
a very angry reply from John McAfee himself. The reply was posted from
your account, so you should know about it. It claimed that the viruses
mentioned by me are actually closely related. Those viruses were
Number of the Beast, Compiler.1, and Darth Vader. Anybody who has
bothered to disassemble them knows that they are completely
different... BTW, SCAN 97 still reports all the three of them as "512
[512]"... :-(

Regards,
Vesselin
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