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to: LUKE O`HEHIR
from: MALCOLM YOUNG
date: 1998-05-12 19:24:00
subject: Keypress-B

Hi Luke,
 >                I am having a problem with a virus  (KEYPRESS-B)
 > At least I think it's a virus.  I have d/l the lastest MCAFEE scanner
 > and DAT files and when I ran it, it detected KP-B in memory.  So, I
 > made a bootdisk and then ran the scanner - all was well, no virus in
 > memory, BUT there was no virus anywhere on my computer either!  When I
 > boot my [P]ersonal [C]omputer up normally and run the scanner, it's
 > there in mem again.  Could it be some prog I am running in my startup
 > files?  If so, how come I neva had this problem before?  New scanner
 > maybe?  The old one doesn't detect it (v2.X) not even with the newest
 > DAT files.
I thought the KP virus was a file infecting virus so it sounds like a false 
alarm. The virus is an old one so the old scanner should have found it. What 
you could try is to REM out items to stop them loading one at a time to find 
the culprit.
You should also get a different scanner for a second (or third) opinion as a 
lot of scanners look for a small block of code to detect a virus false alarms 
are possible.
Regards, Malcolm.
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