Interesting interaction (PC)

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From: c-rossgr
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 22:53

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>From:    p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade)
>
>Noted an interesting interaction between two antivirals the other day,
>and finally tracked it down.  If VIRx 1.4 is run before SCAN 77, SCAN
>will "detect" the presence of the 3445 and Doom 2 viri in memory and
>refuse to run.

Sigh.  Color me dumb.  I forgot to call the zap_virus_strings()
routine under certain conditions, so I left a lot of strings in
memory.  It looks like the McAfee scanner uses some of the same
strings we do...

This has been fixed in the next release of VIRx, due out in a few
days.  Lots of other good stuff in the new one, too.

Ross

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Date: Wed Jun 19 18:53:21 1991
From: c-rossgr@microsoft.COM
Subject: joshi & vsum & f-prot & ll format (PC)

>From:    treeves@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Terry N Reeves)
>
>Vsum still says no utility will remove joshi and that low
>level format is required...

Vsum is totally wrong.  Virex-PC has been able to cure Joshi for quite
a while (> six months, at least).

>	Is their a utility Ms Hoffman? perhaps yuou just don't want to
>admit it because McAffe's can't? (i have not tried McAffee but I
>assume she'd say if his did.)

Interesting idea....

Ross

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