[comp.virus] nVIR A infects Disinfectant?

jbotz@MHC.bitnet (12/14/90)

I had an nVIR A infection here, which disinfectant repaired
successfully, but after scanning the disk it reported that it
(Disinfectant 2.4) had gotten infected itself, and that I should
replace it from a backup.  How- ever, subsequent scans of Disinfectant
(self-scans, so to speak) reported no infection.  The virus was in a
copy of MacWrite on a students floppy disk... and as far as I know
nVIR A only spreads when an infected app- lication gets executed, no?
Also, I'm running Gatekeeper, which did not report any attacks...

Has anyone seen this behavior?  What should I make of it?

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