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Article #4674CLEAN removing Jerusalem (Was: Re: Jerusalem (Israeli) Virus (PC))
From: McAfee Associates
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:17
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:17
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Hello Vesselin,
You write:
>Due to the infection method that this virus employs, it destroys EXE
>files with internal overlay structure (e.g., WordPerfect). Such files
>will crash when executed. They will still crash after disinfection,
>although McAfee's Clean does not warn you about that. If you have an
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>outbreak of this virus, the best solution is to delete all infected
>files and to replace them with clean copies.
CLEAN-UP does have a limited ability to check a Jerusalem virus
infected file and warn the user that the virus can not safely be
removed. It will then ask the user if he (or she) wants to
overwrite-and-delete the file instead.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
McAfee Associates Technical Support
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