AZX@NIHCU.BITNET (10/12/90)
I am a regular 'listener' to Virus-L, but this is the first time I am faced with removing a virus from someone's computer. I tried to remove Jerusalem B from a computer using McAfee's M-J. It claimed to have removed many occurances the first time I ran it, but Scan (v6.3) still found lots of infected files. Subsequent runs of M-J said "clean" for all the files, yet Scan (and VIRscan) said files were still infected. I have tried using a 'clean' disk for boot and virus scanning. Note, M-J complained about my write protect being on. What I am doing wrong? Note, due to problems with BITFTP, I would rather using a modem long distance to transfer files then pull them off of Bitnet/Internet -- so please make suggestions accordingly. Thanks. Andrew Mitz Biomed Engineer NIH Animal Center Animal Research Saves Lives! Poolesville, MD
sigurd@vax1.udel.edu (Sigurd Andersen) (10/17/90)
AZX@NIHCU.BITNET writes: > ... I tried to remove Jerusalem B from a computer using McAfee's M-J. > ... Scan (and VIRscan) said files were still infected. I have tried > using a 'clean' disk for boot and virus scanning. Note, M-J > complained about my write protect being on. ... > >Andrew Mitz >Biomed Engineer >NIH Animal Center Animal Research Saves Lives! >Poolesville, MD If you rebooted with Ctrl-Alt-Del, you may still have a resident virus. Maybe it wasn't M-J complaining about the write protect, but DOS due to a virus trying to infect your disk. Try powering up the system with a known clean boot diskette and run your virus-removing programs again. Sigurd Andersen Internet: Academic Computing Support sigurd@brahms.udel.edu University of Delaware Bitnet: ACS20833@UDELVM Newark, DE 19716 phone: (302) 451-1992