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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: 4096 (frodo) false alarm? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0007.9208131902.AA05714@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 00:49:17 GMT
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- nyh@gauss.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El) writes:
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- >is the way they return since I got the computer. Also, I used f-prot
- >after using scan ant it came to the same conclusions - frodo in
- >memory, but when rebooting from a clean diskette, there was no frodo
- >in memory but no files infected as well.
-
- I see two possibilities.
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- Try running a scanner and scan all files, not just executables - you
- might have an "infected" data file - or a file that has been renamed.
-
- DOS reads data from the disk in whole sectors, and there is a possibility
- that you have a file that was infected once, it was cleaned, but a virus
- fragment might be in the "dead" area between the file and the end of
- the sector, and the scanners might be finding this in some disk buffer.
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- - -frisk
-