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- From LESLIE HERSH Subject WATCHOUT!
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- Date: 08-05-90 (14:54) Number: 46278 of 46297
- To: SYSOP Refer#: NONE
- From: PETER TIFFANY Read: 08-05-90 (15:51)
- Subj: COMMENT Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
- Conf: CHANNEL 1 (0) Read Type: GENERAL
-
- The Jerusalem B virus made an unwelcome appearance in California this
- past week. The infected file, GUIDE511.zip (Home legal information
- and legal forms) had had the OVL file altered, then renamed to appear
- as if it were a help (.hlp) file. When the user engaged the program
- after unzipping, it attached to her FDISK.COM file and began raising
- hell on her hard drive. Thanks to McAfee's Scanv64 and Cleanp64, and
- the enclosed instructions, disaster was averted. In the process I
- called McAfee & Associates. They have discovered that someone has
- used their numbering system and have apparently issued a "virus"
- scanning program using McAfee's # system ie, "scan65" the next
- in the number in (McAfee's) sequencing.
-
- McAfee has NOT issued a 65 series and does not intend to do so. I was
- told they will be issuing a new virus series on August 10, 1990 and
- the new series will carry # 66, ie; SCANV66.zip, etc.