being modified legitimately by the Finder. since those viruses only infect Finder Desktop files, which are constantly useless when trying to locate the source of a WDEF or CDEF infection, source of an infection by one of those viruses. This kind of analysis is also when they infect a file, so this kind of analysis will not help locate the The ZUC, Frankie, and MBDF viruses do not change the modification date  tracing back a chain of infections. This kind of analysis is not infallible, but it can sometimes be useful in  that introduced the virus to your system. your other disks (hard drives and floppies) to attempt to locate the file system is no longer on, or never was on, the disk being scanned. Check all this means that the application that caused the original infection of your If VirusScan’s report notes that a System file is the earliest infected file,  their software may also be infected. given copies of SuperGame or any of your other infected files, because infected too. You should likewise contact anybody else to whom you have the source of the application and tell them that their software is probably SuperGame was probably the source of the infection. You should contact sometime after 11/2, and if you first ran it on or before 12/13, then file was last modified on 12/13. If you obtained your copy of SuperGame infected application, with a last modification date of 11/2. The System For example, in the sample report above, SuperGame is the earliest  the infection. application with the earliest last modification date is often the source of tracking down the history and source of an infection. The infected The last modification dates in the report are sometimes useful for  Last modification 11/2/88, 11:15:03 PM. Earliest infected file: SuperGame  8 infected files total. 8 files infected by Scores. 0 errors. 984 total files. Summary:  12/16/88, 10:08:30 AM. Disk cleaning run completed. My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:40 PM. ### File infected by Scores. System System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:35 PM. ### File infected by Scores. Scrapbook File System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File deleted. Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:33 PM. ### File infected by Scores. Scores System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:34 PM. ### File infected by Scores. Note Pad File System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 12/14/88, 3:02:24 PM. ### File infected by Scores. Finder System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File deleted. Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:40 PM. ### File infected by Scores. Desktop System Folder My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 12/15/88, 5:02:49 PM. ### File infected by Scores. MacWrite Word Processors My Programs My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ File repaired. Last modification 11/2/88, 11:15:03 PM. ### File infected by Scores. SuperGame Games My Programs My Hard Drive ------------------------------------------------ 12/16/88, 10:04:12 AM. Disk cleaning run started. My Hard Drive  Scores-infected hard disk drive. The following example shows a report generated by a cleanion run on a   åSample Report 1 1