HRZ090@DE0HRZ1A.BITNET (Dr. Martin Erdelen) (04/22/91)
Hello antiviralists,
it seems that the Twelve Tricks Trojan (or has it upgraded to virus by
now?) has reached our university. At least, a user reports that a
certain ANTIVIR (which one?) reports an infection. I have not yet
looked at the respective hard disks myself, so this is all a bit
vague.
Now, I am experiencing difficulties to retrieve relevant information
for 12-tricks. For instance, I cannot find an entry in Pat Hoffman's
VSUM9010 (I know it's not the latest one...). Am I missing a synonym
for 12-tricks?
The only info I could find up to now is the (first) warning, on
VALERT-L, by Christoph Fischer, issued on February 12, 1990. I have
also done a database search on the VIRUS-L archives, but have not yet
retrieved the relevant issues (Is there a way to extract only *part*
of the digests? They're all several hundred lines long, and I have to
get them across the Big Pond... And I really need only the
12-trick-relevant bits.)
Would anybody point me to more recent information on the subject,
please? Has this developped into a major epidemic or is it still
rare?
Thanks in advance for any help.
MArtin
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Acknowledge-To: <HRZ090@DE0HRZ1A>padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) (04/23/91)
>From: "Dr. Martin Erdelen" <HRZ090@DE0HRZ1A.BITNET> >At least, a user reports that a certain ANTIVIR (which one?) reports >an infection. Some versions of VIRUSCIDE (Parsons Technology) contain the "12 Tricks" signature string & will cause this indication from a number of other anti-viral programs. Warmly, Padgett