[comp.virus] SCAN and the Brain

Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com (02/21/90)

The following is forwarded from John McAfee:
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	Michael Kapfer stated in yesterday's posting that SCAN will
not identify the Brain virus in memory.  This is not entirely correct.
If you specifically ask for a memory scan (/M) then SCAN will identify
the virus if it is active.  If you do not ask for a memory scan, then
SCAN will in any case scan memory for the "critical" viruses like
4096, Dark Avenger, 512 etc.  It is this default memory scan that
Michael is talking about, and it indeed will not look for the Brain.

John McAfee