[comp.virus] SCANv45 and UNVIRUS

XMU%CORNELLA.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (Tom Young) (10/26/89)

RE: Posting by Sean Haynes of Northeastern in vol. 2, issue 222.
   I, too, have a report that SCANv45 is generating a positive for
Jerusalem-B when checking UNVIRUS.EXE.  I don't have v45 yet, so cannot
confirm.  But the copy of UNVIRUS that I've distributed here came from
the hotel.cis.ksu.edu server, not SIMTEL20.  And I have successfully
used UNVIRUS to remove Jerusalem-B infections.  My copy of UNVIRUS does
not set off SCANv42.  I suspect that the fault lies with the newer
version of John McAfee's program.  Someone should confirm this before
people start doubting the integrity of the virus archive sites.
   Thanks.
                             Tom Young, Cornell Information Technologies

[Ed. See Jim Wright's message (in this digest) about SCANv45 producing
false alarms.]