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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Virus in DJGPP V2.72?
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:09:04 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4k7ilgINNpb4@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <4k3cpf$1p7m@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- In article <4k3cpf$1p7m@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
- Roland Ortloff <roland@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
- >Heuristic flags:
- >
- >c No checksum / recovery information (Anti-Vir.Dat) available.
- >G Garbage instructions. Contains code that seems to have no purpose
- > other than encryption or avoiding recognition by virus scanners.
- >Z EXE/COM determination. The program tries to check whether a file
- > is a COM or EXE file. Viruses need to do this to infect a program.
- >1 Found instructions which require a 80186 processor or above.
- >@ Encountered instructions which are not likely to be generated by
- > an assembler, but by some code generator like a polymorphic virus.
- >
- >
- >
- >The message appeared for every one of the following file
- >being scanned:
- >
- >C:\DJGPP\BIN\AR.EXE might be infected by an unknown virus
- >C:\DJGPP\BIN\AS.EXE "
- >C:\DJGPP\BIN\CC1.EXE "
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- These files are not ordinary EXE files! They are a.out UNIX-style executables
- dressed up as .EXE files. It is most likely that your virus scanning software
- is too braindead to deal with non-standard files.
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