w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (12/02/90)
The following new anti-virus files were obtained directly from McAfee's BBS and are now available on SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.trojan-pro> CLEANP71.ZIP Universal virus disinfector, heals/removes NETSCN71.ZIP Network compatible - scan for 157 viruses, v71 SCANV71.ZIP VirusScan, scans disk files for 160 viruses VALIDATE.CRC From McAfee BBS; CRC validation list of pgms VSHLD71.ZIP Resident virus infection prevention program Keith - -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (12/07/90)
The following new anti-virus files were obtained directly from McAfee's
Homebase BBS at (408) 988-4004 and are now available on SIMTEL20:
pd1:<msdos.trojan-pro>
CLEAN71B.ZIP Universal virus disinfector, heals/removes
SCANV71B.ZIP VirusScan, scans disk files for 160 viruses
VALIDATE.CRC From McAfee BBS: CRC validation list of pgms
VSHLD71.ZIP Resident virus infection prevention program
I have also posted the ZIP files to Usenet's comp.binaries.ibm.pc.
Here is an excerpt from the doc file:
WHAT'S NEW
Version 71-B of SCAN fixes a problem with version 71 in
identifying viruses imbedded in files with non-executable
extensions.
Version numbers 68 through 70 were skipped because of the
appearance of trojan version 70 of SCAN in Israel. Rather than use
the next number in the series we are skipping to version 71.
Version 71 of SCAN now includes an option that allows users
to scan for new viruses by adding their own set of search strings
loaded from an external virus data file. When this /EXT option
is enabled, a user-specified set of scan strings will be scanned
for by the VIRUSCAN program.
We have also removed the extinct viruses from their extinct
category. The extinct category was less than enthusiastically
received by our users who relied on SCAN shell routines written by
third party authors. We will wait until these shell routines can
handle the additional /X switch before we place these viruses back
into the extinct category.
Version 71 of VIRUSCAN adds sixteen new viruses, bringing
the total number of known computer viruses to 160, and known
variants to 239.
[end excerpt]
Keith
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Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74]
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu
Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND