JSHANESY%NAS.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (Jim Shanesy) (10/05/89)
We (Don Kazem of our Technical Systems group, and myself, a programmer/analyst) have just downloaded M-1704.ARC from the Homebase bulletin board and found upon reading the documentation that SCANV40 is supposed to detect M-1704.EXE as a virus. It does not. We both ran SCANV40 (also obtained from Homebase) on our respective hard disks and SCAN reports them both as clean. Don's machine is a PS/2 Model 70 with ESDI-controlled 120 Meg hard disk, and mine is a PS/2 Model 60 with ESDI-controlled 66 Meg hard drive. We are reluctant to run this program until we verify that it is not indeed infected, since its behavior is different from that described in the documentation. Any comments, Mr. McAfee? [Ed. I believe that the newer ViruScan versions were modified to *not* produce this false alarm; perhaps Mr. McAfee can confirm this.] ********************************************************************** Jim Shanesy JSHANESY@NAS.BITNET Office of Computer and Information Technology National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20418 (202)-334-3219 **********************************************************************