Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM (07/27/89)
This is a forwarded message from John McAfee: ============================================================================ Christer Olsson noted that VIRUSCAN will not detect the 1701/1704 virus in EXE files. I originally designed the program not to check EXE files for the 1701/1704 because the virus will not and cannot infect true EXE programs. If, however, you rename your COM files to EXE files, as Christer Olsson has stated, the virus will infect. I did not anticipate this eventuality, and for timing purposes, scanned only COM files. On the assumption that there will be others who rename COM files to EXE files, version V31 of VIRUSCAN, which checks EXE files for 1701/1704, is now available. It also has been modified to detect the new version of the Icelandic. John McAfee VIRUSCAN available on HomeBase - 408 988 4004