Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:22:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970415231756.70B-100000@warp4> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.970415221637.21281D-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu>
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> Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> on Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 said:
>
> > I was checking out the Anti-virus programs for FreeBSD by McAffee
> > and ran it on my system. It showed that I had SEVERAL files infected with
> > a SYSLOCK virus. Any one know about this stuff?
> >
> > Is it worth buying, and is SYSLOCK a real threat?
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I tried out the Mcafee ViruScan for FreeBSD ("uvscan") and had the same
> results. I scanned a large collection of PC files and a hundred or so
> were reported to have this virus. Given that many of the files were GIFs
> and other pure data formats I was skeptical of the results.
>
> So... I spend an hour or so chatting to a nice guy at Mcafee tech support.
> I mailed him a supposedly infected file (a Powerpoint file) and he scanned
> it with his Linux and DOS versions of VirusScan and found no sign of
> infection. He sent the info off to development so the bug can be fixed.
(Jeff)
What version # is this? The 1.01E on their Web site now, or an earlier
release?
Thanks,
Jeff
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