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Article #4303Re: Need Info about INVOLVE virus (PC)
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:38
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:38
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mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates) writes: > >> hello, I am new here. I hope someone could give me some information > >> about the INVOLVE virus. I know that it changes the date on the files > [...deleted..] > >Hmmm... Which version of SCAN? SCAN 99 never reports such name when > >run on our virus collection. Also, no such name is listed in > >VIRLIST.TXT. On the top of that, I have never heard about a virus with > >this name... Maybe Aryeh can comment? > The Invol (Involuntary) virus is a memory-resident .EXE and .SYS file > infector about 1,400 bytes in length. It has a little message embedded in > it thanking users for involuntarily spreading the virus. Please let me > know if you don't have a copy. I do have a copy of both variants of Involuntary, but the original posting was asking about the INVOLVE (not INVOL) virus and that has misleaded me. I have done a full search in my report files, instead of a fuzzy one... :-) 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!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Need Info about INVOLVE virus (PC) Message-ID: <0016.9212151931.AA10887@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 11 Dec 92 19:38:23 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 27 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu