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- From: ames@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Wes Ames)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Filler virus - Need Help! (PC)
- Message-ID: <0013.9211121950.AA09997@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 00:28:20 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- > It is much more
- > probable that you are using some other anti-virus software, like CPAV
- > or TNTVIRUS, that does not encrypt its scan strings and is causing a
- > false positive. If you are using CPAV, read the manual - it clearly
- > says that it is not compatible with any other anti-virus software. So,
- > throw away either CPAV or SCAN. If I were you, I would throw away
- > CPAV...
-
- I have seen several references similar to the above, and I would
- appreciate some clarification. I use several different anti-virus
- packages in our "anti-virus toolkit", including CPAV. My experience
- has been that early versions of CPAV did indeed have a problem with
- viral scan strings in memory, but the problem has been eliminated in
- more recent versions. Not only are the strings encrypted, but they
- are specifically overwritten when the user exits the app. That has
- been my understanding of the current product - have you seen something
- different??
-
- Wes Ames |
- ames@bcstec.ca.boeing.com |
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