Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: sauron@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Bloody! (PC) Message-ID: <0001.9105141950.AA12065@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 14 May 91 11:52:05 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 14 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu I recently found one of my floppy disks to be corrupted. When I scanned the diskette with Scan v. 77, I was told it was infected with the Bloody! virus. I ran Clean-Up v. 77, and it was successfully removed. However, I have since scanned *all* the software I used in the previous week or two, and found no trace of it. Does anybody have an explanation for this? Is it possible that a corrupt file header could be misconstrued as a virus? Or is the "gestation" period of the Bloody! virus longer than a week or two? Help! - -- +----------------------+-------------------------------+----------------------+ |D. Patrick Ryan |"As the people here grow colder| Support freedom of | |Faculty of Engineering| I turn to my computer | expression! Protest | |Memorial University | And spend my evenings with it | the censorship of |