[comp.virus] The not so new virus

jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joseph Poutre) (10/06/89)

Enclosed is a mail message written by a fellow consultant.

  When it first appears, it's just a form of the nVIR virus which AntiPan
  works very well to eradicate.  But it seems to be a self modifying code
  which causes it to mutate to an unrecognizable form.  SO, what do we do
  about it, you ask?

  Well, we have had exceedingly good success in both TAGGING and ERADICATING
  the virus with a program called SYMANTEC ANTI-VIRUS CLINIC.  If the virus
  is tagged, it can be eradicated with AntiPan, or it can be eradicated with
  SAM, the SYMANTEC ANTI-VIRUS CLINIC.  So when people bring you their disks
  to have checked, please run SAM on them.  It's very easy, there will be
  instructions at the desk.

Copies of this message and an infected application will be sent to all those
who requested copies, and any others who also ask.
This is _not_ an endorsement of any sort for SAM, or Anti-pan.

Joseph Poutre (The Mad Mathematician)
jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu