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From: UMEEM37@VAXA.CC.IMPERIAL.AC.UK (Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond)
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Subject: Fu-Manchu infection (PC)
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Date: 5 Dec 90 09:18:00 GMT
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Last night I had a 'wonderful' (?) time (until 3:00am) cleaning-up a
C: drive full of Fu-manchu virus-infected .com files, detected using
McAfee's SCAN program.
   However, I am puzzled about this infection. It seems to have been
triggered by a program lying around at the bottom of my drawer called
INOC2048.EXE and claiming to inoculate files against this Fu-manchu
virus. Are my files actually virusized or is it just another case of
clashes between two types of anti-viral software ? Indeed, is the only
way to get rid of the virus actually deleting the infected file ?  I'm
asking this because out of 146 .com files, I am missing backups for 14
com files.

Thanks,

Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Signal Processing and Communications,
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK.
<umeem37@vaxa.cc.ic.ac.uk> - just another number...