Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com (12/11/89)
SCANV51 is now available on HomeBase. It checks for the Datacrime II-B, the Payday and the Amstrad viruses as new additions to the list. The Datacrime II-B and Payday viruses were submitted by Jan Terpstra of IBM in the Netherlands and the Amstrad was submitted by Jean Luz of the University of Lisbon in Portugal. All three are described in the VIRLIST.TXT file included with SCAN. Five new viruses (at least new to McAfee and the HomeBase group) have been submitted by Andrzej Kadlof, an editor of KOMPUTER Magazine in Warsaw, Poland. These viruses have been reported in the public domain within Poland and many other Eastern block countries, according to Kadlof, but we are not aware of any reports from Western Europe or the U.S. David Chess at IBM has been given copies as has Joe Hirst in London to determine whether these are indeed new viruses. In any case, they are new to SCAN and will be included in the next release. Two are EXE and COM infectors and three are just COM infectors. Hopefully I can report details of how they work within a few days. Alan