[comp.virus] scan problems

SYKLB@NASAGISS.BITNET (Ken Bell) (12/06/89)

> I just downloaded and uudecoded Scanv49.arc and Scanrs49.arc from
> Simtel. The trouble is that when I try to execute either of them the
> pc I'm using hangs!

From the combination of this and the next quote, I'd guess that he's
trying to execute the .ARC files directly instead of unarcing them
first.

> know I have a virus stalking around here and somehow attached to all
> labelled disks which makes me believe it infected Label.com. Not only
> that, I recently bought both Pctools 5.1 and Turbo C 2 & Assembler and
> on doing executing simply Dir to check the contents of the diskettes
> they all reported one hidden file with size 0 bytes! They couldn't
> have left Central Points and Borland already infected! I've just found
> out to my discomfort that practically all pc's here are infected.

Yeah.  It's the disk label (hidden file, 0 bytes).
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