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- From: duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: F-PROT reports Bugsres 3 Jokes program? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0014.9209111901.AA28207@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 19:32:05 GMT
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- Thus spake dana%are.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil):
- >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?
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- The bugsres program I've seen is a non-viral TSR which waits for
- a hotkey and then starts up a bunch of text-mode "insects" which
- run around, chomping up the screen. A "joke", and not a virus.
- Of course, the problem with "jokes" is that jokers tend to
- encapsulate them in replicative engines and to let them go...
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- Why keep software around if you don't know its function, anyway?
- Seems to be a waste of disc space to me - and a recipe for disaster.
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