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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Scan93 Calls Michangelo "Stoned" (PC)
- Message-ID: <0006.9208191546.AA13760@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 12:33:50 GMT
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- voorhis@aecom.yu.edu (Adrienne Voorhis) writes:
-
- > There has been some discussion recently about how (unnamed
- > versions of) McAfee's Scan program are announcing an infection by
- > Stoned when other virus scanners are calling it Michelangelo.
-
- > A copy of Michaelangeo that I have saved from April 1992 is
- > detected by Scan89 as Michaelangeo, but is detected by Scan93 as
- > Stoned. My guess is that other posters that have reported this
- > phenomenon are not dealing with a new variant of Michaelangelo. It's
- > just that the newest version of Scan got sloppy and detects all
- > Michealangeo infections as Stoned. (I haven't heard that
- > Michaelangelo has any other strains detected.)
-
- Your guess is correct. SCAN has become significantly worse in virus
- identification since version 89. Since Michelangelo is indeed a Stoned
- variant, it is not surprising that SCAN detects it as such.
-
- > Not knowing the actual virus that has infected your machine can be
- > a real problem. Previous posts, for example, have described the
- > special problems that users face when disinfecting a computer that has
- > been infected by both Stoned and Michelangelo. If the scanner does
- > not even distinguish between the two, how is the user supposed to know
- > why he or she is having no luck disinfecting the computer?
-
- A very good argument why exact virus identification is very important!
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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