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From: eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Standardized virus signatures (PC)
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Date: 21 Mar 91 13:12:02 GMT
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The scanners have an unpleasant feature. If someone changes the
signature of the virus, it (virus) becames unfamiliar to scanner. So
the publication of signatures leads to the new versions with new
signatures etc.  Though it is a good question what is better, this
emergency or the self-restrictions in communications ...

Eldar A. Musaev			lomi.spb.su!eldar@fuug.fi
researcher, Ph.D., Mathem.Inst., Acad. of Sci., Leningrad