ACCPHH@HOFSTRA.BITNET (06/11/91)
My PC was in the repair shop and I got a call from the guy there stating that there is a virus on my hard drive. I do not know what kind of virus it is. Can someone recomend a good virus scanner I can use to remove this virus. Thanks - -Payam ACCPHH@HOFSTRA.bitnet
msb-ce@cup.portal.com (06/13/91)
In a recent VIRUS-L posting Dennis Hollingworth <holly@fifi.isi.edu> said: > I tested McAfee's SCAN77 using Rosenthal Engineering's new > release of Virus Simulator (I've seen posted as VIRSIM11.COM > on EXEC-PC, Compuserve and others). It seems that SCAN77 > misses three boot sector viruses that SCAN76 found on > the same disk. Both versions of SCAN found nine viruses > in the .COM, four in the .EXE and seven in the test memory > virus. Since no real virus was present all of these "hits" could be regarded as false alarms, theoretically. We must be careful to distinguish what is being tested here. Just because a particular anti-viral product does not declare a particular test string to be a virus, we cannot say that the scanner has failed. A good case can be made for saying that the simulator failed. The only "test target" that can be used is the entirety of a virus, and at that point you no longer have a "simulator", you have the real thing. Fritz Schneider