From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Thu May 08 1997 - 03:31:14 EDT
> Take a look at http://www.us.pc.ibm.com/files.html
For those who didn't surf there, Norton AV apparently flags lots of
perfectly OK IBM files as infected. I wonder whether the next version
of IBM AV will similarly flag Symantec software:-) BTW, one of the
machines my wife manages recently came down with one of the older
boot-sector viruses (whose name I can't recall). This machine had IBM
AV installed and in monitor mode! This shook my faith in this and all
such programs. (BTW, this virus compromised quite a lot of medical
research data, and was only discovered by accident. Otherwise, that
data would have been used in documenting effectiveness of some
hospital intensive care procedures. I wonder how much medical research
nowadays suffers from such viruses. Until this incident it never
occurred to me that these virus writers might actually be killing
people!)
- David
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