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1 total messages Started by Fridrik Skulason Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:06
Re: how to get rid of the Naughty Hacker-1? (PC)
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Author: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:06
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cournoye@ere.umontreal.ca (Cournoyer Louis-Georges) writes:

>Norton anti-virus as reported the presence in my computer's memory of
>the virus Naughty Hacker-1. The Nav program says to boot with a disk
>which has the same system, which in this case is ms-dos 3.3. That i
>have done...

>however, doing so, the nav program is not able to recognize the virus...

>What should i do?

Well, one suggestion might be "Get another A-V" program :-)

>Another funny thing is happening: if i take the ansi.sys out of my
>config.sys file, the nav isn't able to find the virus...

It looks to me as if this might be a false alarm, but I was not aware of
NAV causing this particular false alarm.  You could start by calling them,
and checking if this is a known problem with the version of NAV that you are
using.

- -frisk

Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801
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