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- From: AMN@vms.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: F-PROT reports Bugsres 3 Jokes program? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0010.9209081605.AA21066@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 00:11:22 GMT
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- Dana E. Keil, <dana@are.Berkeley.EDU>, asks:
- > I just obtained F-PROT. Running a scan with it reports that a file
- > named bugres.com is infected with a virus named "bugsres 3 jokes
- > program". I can find no mention of this virus anywhere in F-PROT
- > documentation (nor elsewhere). Can anyone enlighten me about it?
-
- F-PROT means exactly what it says, it has found "bugsres 3 joke
- program". This is not a virus, although Frisk should give information
- about the message in his documentation.
-
- There are a series of joke programs known as "Bugsres", when run they
- don't appear to do anything, but sometime later they generate a video
- effect of a number of little bugs messing about on the screen. Most
- commonly such programs are run, 'for fun', on a computer without the
- owner's permission. F-PROT, and other anti-virus software, therefore
- recognise these programs due to the concern that a virus might be
- causing these effects.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Anthony Naggs
- Software/Electronics Engineer P O Box 1080, Peacehaven
- (and virus researcher) East Sussex BN10 8PZ
- Phone: +44 273 589701 Great Britain
- Email: (c/o Univ of Brighton) amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk or xa329@city.ac.uk
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