Re: 4096 and 1260 Viruses (PC)

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From: Dennis Grinberg
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 07:24

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 Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com writes:
>This is a forward from John McAfee:
. stuff deleted Topic is 4096 virus
>	We don't yet know the exact mechanisms used by this virus, but
>we do know it works.  No memory resident virus filter, or system virus
>scanner that we are aware of is able to prevent infection from this
>virus, or detect an infection after it has occurred - providing that
>the virus is active.  The only way, currently, that we know how to
>detect this virus is to look for its code in memory.

This is strange because I seem to recall SCAN55 detecting this virus
on a machine that I came across. Is my memory faulty?

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Subject: Re: 4096 and 1260 Viruses (PC)
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