Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: YOURWAY.EXE virus
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.130454.27944@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
References: <4253.27de98b2@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 13:04:54 GMT
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Felix) Jones <mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike> writes:
> For anyone interested, I did a dump from LABTEST by Panda to see what was in
> the program YOURWAY.EXE.
>This is what I got.  You can see the "ha ha ha" in it a little ways down.
>(I suggest getting something like labtest, it can save on BIG headaches, 
>especially since many virus authors leave some kind of message)

I, too, downloaded YourWay.  Before the first postings about viruses, I ran
it and seemed to work just fine.  I played around with it for a little while,
but nothing untoward happened.  When I saw the postings, I downloaded the
latest SCANV (version 75, from late February) to check it out.  But SCANV
didn't find anything --- and it knows about close to 500 viruses!  I've
erased YourWay, but I'm still not convinced it was a virus.

Anyway, you can get SCANV for free, register it for something like $40, and
quickly scan all your new downloads every time.  Recommended.

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ "i don't even know what street canada is on"               -- al capone ]