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From: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: TOPS and Interferon virus report
Message-ID: <2932@eos.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 07:15:04 GMT
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Reply-To: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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	Help!
		I recently ran interferon 3.1 on my TOPS 2.1 updater disk
and got a report back that virus type 003 was reported on the TOPS file. I 
know the TOPS file isn't your everyday kind of file ( however checking the 
the 2.0 disk I got no such report ).  

	report:

		Virus type 003 "SNEAK" Virus

			Hardisk:
				Systems Folder:
						TOPS


	from documentation:
	"003 	A SENAK virs. This is a virus that adds it's code to a
		common System folder file and changes it's type to INIT so 
		that it is run at boot time.  Type 003 is a generic "Virus
		sniffer" that detects if common Systems folder files have been
		adulterated in this way.  If you get a type 003 virus, ...    "


	I thought that TOPS was an INIT?!?  

	Perplexed


Lyman S. Taylor					lyman@eos.arc.nasa.gov
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