Re: Need some help disinfecting NOP virus (PC)

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1 total messages Started by Vesselin Bontchev Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:18

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Author: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:18

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BERGERA@Citadel.edu (Andy Berger - IRM User Support 2-6996) writes:

> We are experiencing an outbreak of NOP viruses on our campus.  Does
> anyone have any recent experience with disinfecting this virus from
> floppies and hard drives?  How about any suggestions on doing this
> easily to a large population of several hundred users?  Are McAfee's
> SCAN, and M-disk the best utilities to do this?  Are there any others
> which work better?

All I know is that there is a boot sector infector which SCAN calls
like that. Unfortunately, SCAN is very unreliable in identifying
viruses exactly. On the top of that, I am unable to test it on boot
sector viruses, because I don't have them in live form - only as
binary dumps of the infected boot sectors.

So, I have no clue what the "NOP virus" actually is. Could you please
try to run F-Prot 2.06a on an infected diskette and tell me the
results?

Regards,
Vesselin
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