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From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New virus ?
Summary: Author of "KV" responds
Message-ID: <1815@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 17:08:00 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
Lines: 47

References: <716@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>

In article <716@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>, d8forma@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Forssen) writes:
> 
>  Last night a friend called me, since he suspected he had a virus.
>  I gladly grabbed my copy of VirusX (3.20) and drove over, but VirusX
>  reported no virus. However I saw the text from the virus myself, and
>  a closer look at the diskette showed that the file c/addbuffers had grown,
>  furthermore a file with a blank name had appeared in devs.
> 
[stuff deleted]
> 
>  The questions I now ask me is:
>  Is this a known virus?
>  and if the answer is no,
>  What is Steve Tibbets mail adress?
> 
> 
> 							MaF
> 
The answer comes to you from Dan James (`djj') author of 
"KV" which comes bundled with VirusX.  Djj has no net access.

Quote:
Yes, this is a known virus.  I have a new version of KV that will
detect
this virus on a floppy and alert you to its existance. 
It will also rename
the invisible file to OLD_PROGRAM.BGS9 just to help deal with it.
  Steve Tibbett has the source to KV and plans to incorporate the
detection
features into the next VirusX.
Djj
End of Quote

Don't ask when the new VirusX will be out nor what version
number it will be.  It will be out "soon" and the version 
number is being withheld for now so that some nasty person
doesn't jump the gun and fake a new version.  This happened
once and annoyed Steve Tibbett to no end.  Stay tuned.



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