Re: Possible Virus
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Rob wrote:
> Therefore, there is *no virus* in either the clean pdex.exe
> or the "quarantined" version, unless you believe
> that the clean pdex.exe on our site, which has been
> downloaded and used for many months by many
> thousands of people is tainted.
>
> Obviously what happened is that Norton
> erroneously raised a warning flag against
> ex.exe and pdex.exe, probably because they are
> compressed executables. Norton then proceeded to
> create the quarantined versions of ex.exe and pdex.exe
> by adding an 8000-byte information block and
> inverting all the bits. The information block contains
> things such as your name "Rett Williams", the
> name of the suspected virus, a whole bunch of 0's etc.
For what it's worth, I downloaded the latest version of Norton,
and the viriii updates, last night. No problem was found in any
of the Euphoria programs.
So it may be that Rett was using an older version of Norton
which erroneously flags compressed files, or it may be
that there actually is a virus in his computer which is infecting various
things, and his copy of Euphoria is just one of the unlucky ones.
Regards,
Irv
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