Re: false positive?

I have come across install instructions that say, "shutdown virus scanner"
install then restart virus scanner. Have you tried that?

Jodell

>
> I am using SwiftForth PRO 2.00.3 19may2000.
>
> I also use the PC-cillin anti-virus program. Everything was fine with the
> November 10 virus pattern files, then with the release of the November 14
> virus pattern files, PC-cillin says it detected the virus PE_FINALDO.A in
> the file TTY.DLL and deletes that file. SwiftForth won't work without
> TTY.DLL.
>
> I have repeatedly scanned the whole computer and get a clean report. But
> then when I reinstall SwiftForth from the distribution CD, the PC-cillin
> program immediately pounces on TTY.DLL and deletes it. PC-cillin gives a
> clean result when it scans the distribution CD.
>
> When I copy TTY.DLL from my laptop onto a floppy and try to copy it onto
my
> desktop machine, PC-cillin pounces again. It also pounces on a renamed or
> zipped copy of TTY.DLL.
>
> PE_FINALDO.A is apparently a very new virus just discovered in November
> 2001.
>
> My current theory is that I do not have and never did have an infection by
> this virus and PC-cillin is giving a false positive result, possibly based
> on the unusual low level system calls in this DLL.
>
> I have e-mailed Trend Micro, the maker of PC-cillin, but have not gotten
any
> help from them so far.
>
> Any thoughts?

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