Hi Sam H. et al,
Any virus checker I've used says "may be
a virus" just for this reason. I have several programs which
McAfee tags as "may be a virus" which I know are perfectly
safe.
Eric
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:16:27 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
>
> > Hi Sam,
>
> > code which causes a PC to reboot can theoretically be used to
> > immediately bring up a boot virus. Perhaps this is the reason why people
> > from F-Prot set up this warning.
>
> > Regards Joerg
> > -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
> Besides BOOTC.COM I have three other programs that will reboot the
> computer. These other programs were not flagged as destructive.
> They are WARMBOOT.COM, COLDBOOT.COM, and BOOTW.COM. Running
> BOOTC.COM or COLDBOOT.COM I believe is equivalent to hitting the
> computer's reset button. Running WARMBOOT.COM or BOOTW.COM I
> believe is equivalent to pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Only BOOTC.COM
> was flagged as a destructive program. The program does nothing bad
> as far as I know. I have used it many times. Any one of these
> programs could theoretically be used to immediately bring up a boot
> virus.
>
> BTW, I do know that F-PROT did actually examine the code in
> BOOTC.COM. The program was not flagged just for reason of it's name.
> If I rename the program to anything else it will still get flagged.
> Are there any assembly language programmers out there who would like
> a copy of the program so that you might examinine it and tell me
> what could possibly be wrong with it? It is only a 16 byte program.
> I am really curious to know what might possibly be wrong with it.
>
> Sam Heywood
> -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
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