Re: Info Grain of Sand Virus (PC)

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1 total messages Started by Vesselin Bontchev Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55

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Author: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55

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dboer@let.rug.nl (Ale de Boer) writes:

> Can anyone give information about the Grain of Sand virus. TBSCANX
> noticed this virus while copying a file allegedly containing it. Scans
> with McAfee turned up nothing, nor did TBSCAN. I could not find any
> information about the GoS virus in VSUMX.

A more widely used name for this virus is Maltese Amoeba. In our tests
SCAN 97 was able to detect reliably the infected samples, so you
probably have a false positive. Just in case, try F-Prot 2.06a. It is
important to verify whether you really have this virus or it is only a
false positive, since the virus triggers on November 15 and destroys
the information on your hard disk.

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
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e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany

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