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From: csw76@seq1.keele.ac.uk (J.C. Kohler)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Whale virus, can anybody find it? (PC)
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Date: 25 Mar 91 23:02:07 GMT
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I have a computer which is infected by the Whale virus, but none of
the virus-scanners I use can find it. I found the virus on the
computer about a week ago, using McAffee's scan. I removed the
infected files, but it keeps coming up.

I have tried to find it with scan, f-prot and AVS. Is this because it
is a stealth virus???

I think I'm going to do a low-level format on the disk now, to prevent
any trouble in the fututre.

But could anybody tell me why it is impossible to find it.

Many thanks in advance,

Christian Kohler
University of Keele, United Kingdom

csw76@uk.ac.kl