Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!slb-sdr!shulman From: shulman@slb-sdr.UUCP (Jeff Shulman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The return of the SCORES virus (we got bit by it) Keywords: need info about it, how it works, etc Message-ID: <509@slb-sdr.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 88 13:59:49 GMT References: <4423@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: shulman@slb-sdr.UUCP (Jeff Shulman) Organization: Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield CT Lines: 27 I must remind you that the purpose of VirusDetective is to *detect* known viruses, *not* to delete them. Deleting a single resource (which VD will offer to do) does not eradicate all viruses (like Scores). VD *does* warn you to this effect. VD's original purpose was to help me detect files that were downloaded from various places for viruses *before* they were run and/or made available to others. Also, VD does not look for *possible* viruses but ONLY those resources it is told about. It does what it is supposed to do VERY fast and VERY efficient. It is also usable just to find resources and files of a certain type/creator. It can be modified by anyone easily to change its search criteria. You do not have to find another program to detect yet another virus. BTW, I was toying with the idea to add scripting capabilities to remove viruses but so far nobody seems to want that nor do I have the incentive to do so over my other projects. Jeff -- uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM Delphi: JEFFS GEnie: KILROY CIS: 76136,667 MCI Mail: KILROY Disclaimer: I wrote VirusDetective.