[comp.virus] FLIP or OMICRON

storck@yogi.vmsmail.unibas.ch (05/13/91)

Hello everybody

I have an IBM Clone 386/25 and suddenly I detected a virus with the
following outlook.It converted EXE-,COM- and BAT-Files to files with
the name of the little greek letter GAMMA and the attributes
Read-Only,System,Archive and Hidden, though the files couldn't be
deleted. After having detected it with two different programs
(VIRScan, TNTVirus) I had two different names of the virus: FLIP ,
OMICRON.

Now my questions:
 1) Is 'FLIP' another name for 'OMICRON' ?
 2) Infected files can be desinfected by TNTVirus 7.02. Are these
    files after desinfection 100% executable ?

Many thanks in advance to everybody who can send me an answer !

Pascal