[comp.virus] Bloody!

sauron@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) (05/14/91)

I recently found one of my floppy disks to be corrupted.  When I
scanned the diskette with Scan v. 77, I was told it was infected with
the Bloody! virus.  I ran Clean-Up v. 77, and it was successfully
removed.  However, I have since scanned *all* the software I used in
the previous week or two, and found no trace of it.  Does anybody have
an explanation for this?  Is it possible that a corrupt file header
could be misconstrued as a virus?  Or is the "gestation" period of the
Bloody! virus longer than a week or two?  Help!

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