Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/05/02:45:59
For everybody's information: we have been cleared of all fault!!
> From: "Coarsey, John B." <CoarJB AT jea DOT com>
> Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:50:44 -0400
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> For your information, I will let you decide whether this should be posted to
> the group. Thanks
>
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> > From: Fore, Bea
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 3:36 PM
> > To: Coarsey, John B.
> > Subject: FW: virus
> >
> > John,
> >
> > It is not a real Virus. CA is updated their signature file. I am glad it
> > was a false alarm.
> >
> > Thanks -- Bea
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fore, Bea
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 3:01 PM
> > To: Coarsey, John B.
> > Subject: RE: virus
> >
> > I have sent a copy of the make.exe file to Cheyenne, the anti-virus
> > software vendor. They are going to make sure it is not a virus. I'll let
> > you know when I find out something.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Coarsey, John B.
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:58 AM
> > To: Fore, Bea
> > Subject: RE: virus
> >
> > Please let me know if this turns out to be a "REAL" virus. If so I am
> > going to scrub Mcaffe and get Cheyanne to run at home. There will also be
> > some other surprised people to. I am not executing any of these files
> > until we know for sure. Thanks, John C.
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Fore, Bea
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:28 AM
> > To: Coarsey, John B.
> > Subject: RE: virus
> >
> > Thanks. I ran Innoculan on the Test55 directory and Innoculan
> > reported it as a cold virus that it could not cure. I was planning to
> > call CA support and ask them about this, just to be on the safe side.
> >
> > Thanks again -- Bea
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Coarsey, John B.
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:23 AM
> > To: Fore, Bea
> > Subject: Fw: virus
> >
> > Please forward this our virus people. I think there is an
> > excellent chance that Cheyanne may be at fault here.
> >
> > Ole Laursen <ole_laursen AT hardworking DOT dk> wrote in message
> > <JOpT2.1210$F7 DOT 21575 AT news020 DOT image DOT dk>...
> > >Many virus scanners think the stub *is* a virus, because it
> > does
> > >virus-like things. Check with other virus scanners, and if
> > none of
> > >them show a virus, and Inoculan shows all DJGPP programs
> > are a virus
> > >but no other programs are, then I'd say Inoculan is broken.
> >
> > Might I add to this story of cold-virus (aaahtju!;-) that
> > almost all programs compiled with djgpp are reported by the latest
> > Inoculan update to contain the cold3927 virus, not only those shipped with
> > the distribution. So it must be Inoculan's fault.
> >
> > It would probably be a good idea if someone (else than me,
> > my ISP's webserver is down for the time being) sent CAI a report.
> >
> > Have a nice evening!
> >
> > Ole Laursen
> > Aalborg, Denmark
> >
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