Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!mitel!rupert!infotech
From: infotech@rupert.misemi ( infottech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Is there a virus in QEMM Ver. 5.1 ??
Keywords: virus,QEMM5.1
Message-ID: <5955@rupert.misemi>
Date: 9 Jan 91 20:34:04 GMT
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Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
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A recent article found on comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest states (in part):

>Date: Tue, 1 Jan 91 10:58:09 -0500
>From: David Kirschbaum <kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil>
>Subject: Reported QEMM virus
>
>I have found what appears to be a virus on the factory supplied disk
>from Quarterdeck on the QEMM386 V5.1 diskette in the Optimize.com amd
>install.exe programs. These 2 programs contain a HEX signature of
>EAF0FF00F0 which indicates the possible presence of the 648 virus. This
>virus is supposed to infect overlay programs, which I have had MAJOR
>problems with lately. 
>

I checked my copy of QEMM 5.1 and lo and behold the same Hex string
was in these programs... So, what's the scoop? Is it a virus? SCANV71
didn't find anything out of the ordinary in these files. I have yet to
get through to Q-deck customer support...

Anyone have any further info?