Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!uwvax!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: portal!cup.portal.com!Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: New Virus (PC) Message-ID: <0004.8909211142.AA16502@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Sep 89 00:22:54 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 18 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Well, it's happening again. We've just received a new virus from Randy Dean at the U.C. Davis bookstore. The virus infects COM and EXE files, including COMMAND.COM, increases the size of infected files by 1800 bytes, and infects through the DOS COPY command, as well as program loads. The virus contains the words - "The Dark Avenger, copyright 1988, 1989 and the message - "This program was written in the city of Sofia. Eddie lives.... Somewhere in Time!". The virus bears no resemblance to the Jerusalem despite the similarity in sizes. ViruScan V38 identifies the virus. By the way, I'd also like to respond to the comments about ViruScan and John McAfee. If I had written a shareware program that was being distributed by some other company for money, I would be pretty ticked off. John has the right to determine who can sell it and who can't, as I see it. [Ed. Has V38 been sent out to the VIRUS-L/comp.virus archive sites?]