Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!julia!hgw From: hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: nVIR virus found in "Kill Virus" Message-ID: <223@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 23 Nov 88 19:43:24 GMT References: Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: hgw@math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Lines: 25 In article ll12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laura Ann Lemay) writes: > > >Kill Virus is equipped with a foil for the nVIR virus, which will keep it >from getting infected. However, since the resource is called "nVIR", >it trips up interferon and other such programs. > >Kill virus is currently the best program for getting rid of nVIR. THE >PROGRAM IS ***NOT*** infected!!!! > > >-Laura Does KillVirus protect all applications or just those who were infected? With applications (pd and others) going through and being copied onto my drive how will I know if the real (the bad one) nVIR shows up? It might start infecting other applications that did not get KillVirus protection. It seems to me that KillVirus will add confusion to this virus problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT