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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:24:00 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: ?? Virus detected on CD FSB_330A ???
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Greg Lehey wrote:

> [this message forwarded to FreeBSD-questions]
> 
> On Tuesday, 30 March 1999 at 11:59:58 -0800, NIcky Lai wrote:
>
>> Virus name:   PRESTO *
>> TOOLS\OSBSBETA.EXE (OS-BS\OS-BS.COM)
>> TOOLS\OSBS135.EXE (OS-BS\OS-BS.COM)
> 
> Interesting.  I wonder what the information in parentheses means.

I think the .EXE files are self-extracting archives, and the filename in
parentheses is the file within the archive which (possibly) has this
"virus".

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