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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: MANUEL LLORENS
date: 1996-12-21 15:42:00
subject: stealth_C

Hello Kurt:
11 Dec 96 (at 10:59), Kurt Wismer wrote to Manuel Llorens:
 ML>> Run some good/recent AV program, like AVP or F-Prot. And
 ML>> reset inmediatly after that. Then boot from a clean floppy
 KW> i think you have this backwards... you have to boot from a clean
 KW> floppy and then run the anti-virus software... and stealth_c should be
 KW> easily gotten rid of by this method...
 I know... but many times that works too. I've test it. And it's faster if 
you don't have a clean boot disk with clean AVs on it.
 ML>> If this way you can't get rid of it, then reformat HD. But
 KW> it is never, ever necessary to reformat a drive to disinfect it... and
 KW> in the case of stealth_c, which is a bootsector/mbr infector,
 KW> reformatting won't even get rid of the virus (it'll only get rid of
 KW> everything else)...
 That's true... I was a bit out when a I wrote that X'DDD too many answers in 
a day ':-GG
Greets :)
  Patuel, Pilgrim Cosysop of EDiSoN'S TeMPLe
  patuel@temple.subred.org * no files please
... :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| X-D :-| :-| :-|, y ese... ¨de qu‚ se rie, eh?
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