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echo: virus_info
to: THE VISIONARY
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1996-12-25 17:50:00
subject: stealth_C

TV>  JK> GK> A friends computer has a stealth_c virus in his memory.  McAfees 
s
TV>  JK> will
TV>  JK> GK> get rid of it.  what can be done.  have re-installed dos totally 
t
TV>  JK> install
TV>  JK> GK> new *.sys files  still there so it must be in the computer 
memory.
TV>  JK> there
TV>  JK> GK> anyway of getting rid of it besides reprogramming the CMOS?
TV>
TV>        Sounds like it's on the boot sector, or on the last two sectors of
TV> the disk (or moves there).
TV>
TV>  JK> Get Thunder Byte Anti Virus.  I can almost asure you that it will
TV>  JK> kill the sucker.
TV>
TV>        That or F-Prot will clean it up. I've never trusted McAfee or 
Bav,
TV> since their practices are a little 'questionable'.
McAfee is more or less useless.
But what do you mean about that "their practices are a little questionable"?
... nfx v2.9 [C0000]
--- BBBS/D v3.33 How-C
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