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- From: james.roy@synapse.isis.org (James Roy)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: McAfee Products (PC)
- Message-ID: <0009.9207211508.AA11928@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 19 Jul 92 20:06:00 GMT
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- TO: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson)
-
- APP> Lately, there has been a more disturbing trend to leave off
- APP>the explicit identification and identify whole families of viruses
- APP>simply as [GEN-P] (GENeric-Partition). Since IMHO it is important for
- APP>those cleaning up after infections to know what it is they are dealing
- APP>with once an infection has been identified, I sincerely hope that this
- APP>trend will not continue.
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- McAfee was quoted in Australia recently as saying that he didn't
- recommend using virus cleaning utilities by anyone except those without
- back-ups.
-
- The reason he said this is that such cleaning utilities are not 100%
- effective and can damage code or leave it infected. One is better to
- identify the infected files, wipe them and restore from back-up. As
- for those who don't maintain effective back-ups, maybe there is a
- Santa Claus, Virginia.
-
- Generic detection is the way to go if what we are talking about is the
- ability to detect --all-- viruses known and unknown. This is the major
- weakness of scanners - they can't identify viruses they don't already
- know about.
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