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- From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: disinfectors that leave ghosts of viruses (PC)
- Message-ID: <0011.9212171857.AA14855@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 09:03:30 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- OVERBERGER@GW.WMICH.EDU wrote: "... new variety of STONED ... infect the
- partition table of infected DOS machines ... F-Prot 2.06a [and CLEAN]
- identified it as a STONED virus but refused to remove it...
- FRISK@COMPLEX.IS replied: ... old problem ... disks ... infected with
- stoned, and improperly disinfected by a program that just overwites a part
- of the boot sector with valid code, leaving a part of the virus, so
- [FRISK's] program gets a partial match...
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- These 'ghosts' of killed viruses are perennial problem. It would be
- useful if a FAQ entry could be made listing: (1) what variants of what
- virus-removers leave ghosts and don't properly ghostbust after themselves;
- (2) how a user can ghostbust after using such an untidy virus-remover, so
- that he doesn't keep getting these false alarms.
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