frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (02/06/90)
Some time ago there was a bit of discussion here on Virus-L, regarding the
virus name VACSINA.
According to Vesselin Bontchev - the Bulgarian virus researcher, there
is a logical explanation for the name - which is the Bulgarian word
for "vaccine".
VACSINA is the logical name of a device-driver virus-protection program,
written by the same person as wrote the virus. Since the virus communicates
with this program, the string VACSINA appears in the virus.
The full decription of the "VACSINA" virus (as well as the other 30-50
Bulgarian virus variants) will probably be posted by Vassilian soon.
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frisk - Fridrik Skulason - University of Iceland, Computing Services
Technical Editor, Virus Bulletin