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From: warthman@softvax.radc.af.mil (WARTHMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: New viruses? (MAC)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 14:00:00 GMT
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I've been told about a recent CNN report, supposedly dealing with 2
new Macintosh viruses. The person who told me about this could not
remember the names of either, but said that one of them had "DEF" as
part of its name. He said it was *not* MDEF or WDEF. He could not
remember if it was CDEF, but said he did *not* think it was. He said
that the report indicated that there was no "cure" for one of the
viruses, and that Symantec (he mentioned this company by name) was
"feverishly" working on countermeasures to combat that virus. Has
anyone on VIRUS-L heard this CNN report? Can you fill in the blanks?
I wonder if this person misunderstood, and CNN was actually referring
to the "Whale" virus (DOS)?

Also, I've recently heard about a variant of nVIR called "prod". Does
anyone have information about this one? Will the current set of
anti-viral tools handle it, since it's supposed to be just another
clone? Will it even be tracked separately?

Thanks for whatever insight can be added.

- -- Jim Warthman      Warthman@SOFTVAX.RADC.AF.MIL   (Internet)
                     AFC JimW                       (America Online)