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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "SCORES" virus
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Date: 14 Apr 88 10:22:50 GMT
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Keywords: Virus, SCORES, Vaccine

To clear up this whole virus thing:

Beside the Scores/Desktop/VULT virus a few others exist.

Robert Woodhead (Wizardry I-IV, a reversi game, etc.) is writing and has
almost completed "Interferon". Interferon is an application that will
check all connected volumes and delete files that appear infected. The
info I have lists several known viruses including the VULT one mentioned
here. It is known to detect these viruses.

I assume that one uses Vaccine nnormally, then periodically uses Interferon
to do an indepth check. 

Other things about the VULT virus:

If I am correct, the virus has several bugs. It tries to modify the Desktop
file, but incorrectlly creates one in the System Folder. The atpl resource
is supposed to make it infect things connected via AppleTalk, but doesn't
appear to work correctly.

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