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F-PROT Professional 2.23 Update Bulletin

CONTENTS BRIEFLY

  • F-Secure to shield Internet connections
  • F-PROT in European Football Championships
  • F-PROT to protect more than 50 servers and 450 workstations
  • The global virus situation
  • Major
  • Glupak
  • Nado
  • Tentacle
  • WereWolf
  • WordMacro/Wazzu
  • News in short
  • PC World Hong Kong chooses F-PROT as best buy
  • Microsoft distributes the Sampo virus by accident
  • Common questions and answers
  • New products
  • Changes in F-PROT Professional version 2.23
  • Changes in F-PROT for DOS
  • Changes in F-PROT for Windows
  • New viruses detected by F-PROT

F-Secure to shield Internet connections

A new group of information security products has been developed to stand beside F-Secure' F-PROT anti-virus products and the Vineyard sales and marketing software. The F-Secure products will fulfill companies' information security requirements in access control and cryptography.

The strongest possible security is common to all F-Secure products. The cryptographic features of F-Secure products are one example of this; they are based on the same methods that are used by military and intelligence organizations.

Among the encrypting algorithms used in F-Secure are RSA, 3key3DES and IDEA.

The SSH software tools are the first F-Secure products to reach the market. They have been in development since last spring. The size of the development team has recently been multiplied, and several new products are about to start shipping. F-Secure SSH Client and Server programs make secure communication between two UNIX computers or a UNIX computer and a Windows computer possible. Macintosh Client programs will be ready this summer.

These products provide, for instance, the strongest possible security for employees connecting remotely to office systems. The connections are secured automatically and transparently by powerful cryptography.

The F-Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN). With the F-Secure VPN it is possible to create a secure network between several locations connected by unsecure networks, most often the Internet.

Installing and using VPN does not require any special knowledge. Installation and configuration can easily be carried out by any system administrator.

You can find out more about our new products from your local F-PROT distributor, or by visiting our WWW server www.F-Secure.com.

F-PROT in European Football Championships

The F-PROT Professional anti-virus software has again proved its leading position in the market. F-PROT has been chosen as the official anti-virus product of Europe's Football Championship Tournament. All computers and networks used in the Euro'96 tournament will be protected F-PROT Professional anti-virus products.

This new acknowledgment of F-PROT's capabilities comes only four months after our product was again named "Editor's Choice" in the evaluation published by the respected Secure Computing magazine.

F-PROT to protect more than 50 servers and 450 workstations

According to the technology consultant of the Euro'96 tournament, Bill Alaoglu, Euro'96 wanted the best available anti-virus software to protect its more than 450 computers and over 50 servers. "That is why F-PROT Professional was chosen as the anti-virus software of this year's biggest European sports event."

F-Secure' distributor in UK, Portcullis Distribution, will supply the tournament organizers with the required F-PROT Professional licenses. Bob Hoxey, the managing director of Portcullis, states that the choice of F-PROT is once more an indication of the fact that information security professionals consider the virus protection offered by F-PROT to be the best available in the world.

The global virus situation

During the last few months, there have been particularly many incidents involving viruses which spread through Internet. Infected files in Internet are typically either games, demos or a crack programs used for removing the copy protection from commercial software.

Major

The Major virus got widespread in April 1996, because it had managed to get into a file package called CANCER01.ZIP in the ftp site wuarchive.wustl.edu.

In addition to the infected files inside CANCER01.ZIP, Major virus has spread inside files called TAP.EXE and FLASH.EXE (PKLited dropper).

Major tries to interact with the Major BBS system. Without further information about this BBS system, it is impossible to tell what the virus actually tries to do. However, it is clear that it tries to access the files \BBSV6\BBSAUDIT.DAT and \BBSV6\BBSUSR.DAT.

Major contains the following encrypted texts:

        The Major BBS Virus created by Major tomwn to DOS
        Puppet Image Gnat Minion Cindy F'nor

Like many other memory-resident viruses, Major causes conflicts with some memory-managing programs.

The Major virus has been found in the wild in several countries.

Glupak

Glupak is a buggy direct action infector of COM files. It activates on October 21st and attempts to overwrite the hard disk. After this, it displays the following text and hangs the PC:

Happy Birthday Freaky!

Glupak also contains the following encrypted text which is never shown:

        [TV.Suicidal.Dream.B] (c) 1996 The Freak/The Underground
        From the hypnotic spectre of wake I scream locked in depths of suicidal Dream

The virus may also delete *.ZIP and ANTI-VIR.DAT files.

Glupak was discovered in the wild in Switzerland and Finland in April 1996.

There is also another, 890 byte variant of the virus. It contains slightly different texts.

Nado

This Danish virus infects COM files when they are accessed, and tries to hide the size increase of the infected files.

It contains the following text:

        [Yitzak-Rabin 1.00 (c) made by TorNado in Denmark'96]

Nado contains code which activates when the DEL key is pressed on the keyboard. At this time, it tries to overwrite the boot sector of the hard disk with the text shown above. Nado.841 also deletes ANTI-VIR.DAT files.

There are several different variants of the virus, varying between 584 and 841 bytes in size. Some of the variants overwrite hard drives and corrupt CMOS setup information, others just delete anti-virus programs when they are executed. Certain variants infect EXE files instead of COM files. However, the 841 byte variant is the only commonly found Nado virus. Note that the damage done by the 584 byte variant can not always be successfully repaired; it corrupts files while infecting them.

Nado was confirmed to be in the wild in Denmark in April 1996.

Tentacle

This Windows virus was found in the wild in France and UK in March 1996. The virus spread in a file called DOGZCODE.ZIP, which was posted in the alt.cracks Usenet newsgroup in Internet. After that, the virus quickly became widespread. Tentacle infects Windows 3.1x EXE files.

Tentacle infects files in the current and Windows directories. It does not stay resident in memory.

Occasionally, Tentacle will replace the icon of an infected EXE file with its own picture. This new icon has a picture of a tentacle and the text 'Tentacle'.

WereWolf

In fact, WereWolf is a large family of related viruses. Between December 1995 - February 1996, many of them were reported to be in the wild in France. Most of the WereWolf viruses are memory-resident COM and EXE file infectors.

WereWolf is a stealth virus, but it will only hide the changes in file sizes. The virus is not encrypted, and it contains the following text:

	BEAST

WereWolf avoids infecting the following programs:

CLEAN - McAfee CLEAN
AVP - Antiviral Toolkit Pro
TB - ThunderByte Antivirus
QB - QBasic
SCAN - McAfee SCAN
COMM - Many communication programs
NAV - Norton Antivirus
V - Anything starting with a 'V'
FINDV - S&S Findvirus
GUARD - S&S VirusGuard
FV - S&S Findvirus
CHKDS - DOS CHKDSK
F-PR - F-PROT
-D - AVP TSR

Werewolf.1500.B is a polymorphic variant of this virus. It managed to get into widespread distribution in April 1996. The virus had attached itself to a shareware game called 'PackMan', which was available in the upload directory of a major shareware ftp server. This variant has been found in the wild in several countries.

WordMacro/Wazzu

There are now almost 20 Word-specific macro viruses. Unlike most other macro viruses, WordMacro/Wazzu has actually been seen in the wild: there were a few reports of infections in USA during spring 1996.

WordMacro/Wazzu consists of a single AutoOpen macro; this makes it language independent, i.e. this macro virus is able to infect localized versions of Word as well as the English Word.

Wazzu frequently modifies the contents of documents it infects, moving words around and inserting the text 'wazzu '. The word 'Wazzu' is reported to be a nickname for the Washington State University.

News in short

Michelangelo 1996: Allan Dyer of Yui Kee Company Ltd Reports from Hong Kong

There were very few Michelangelo activation reports world-wide this year. The Michelangelo virus activates every year on March 6th, overwriting the beginning of the hard drive. However, the South China Morning Post news reported in March that Martin Lee Chu-Ming, chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, lost "every speech, newspaper article, press release, legal brief or other utterance in English made by Mr Lee since the middle of 1994" because the Michelangelo virus had destructively activated on his machine. "Some data has been recovered and there are some backups, but much is expected to be lost forever".

PC World Hong Kong chooses F-PROT as best buy

Once again, F-PROT Professional received a "Best Buy" award, this time in PC World Hong Kong's March review of anti-virus software. F-PROT had the best detection rate against a test set of 2223 viruses, and was also praised for ease-of use and documentation.

Microsoft distributes the Sampo virus by accident

Microsoft accidentally distributed approximately 1500 diskettes infected with the Sampo boot sector virus (see Update Bulletin 2.16) at a recent Microsoft Business Solutions Conference in Hong Kong. The diskettes contained the Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 web browser. The infection took place at the diskette duplication company, and Microsoft will replace the infected diskettes.

Common questions and answers

If you have questions about information security or virus prevention, contact your local F-PROT distributor. You can also contact Data Fellows directly in the number 358-0-478 444.

Written questions can be mailed to:

F-Secure Ltd
F-PROT Support
Päiväntaite 8
02210 ESPOO
FINLAND

Questions can also be sent by electronic mail to:

Internet: F-PROTSupport@F-Secure.com
X.400: S=F-PROT, OU1=DF, O=elma, P=inet, A=mailnet, C=fi

I received a warning about a harmful program called PKZIP300. What should I do?

Don't worry too much. PKZIP300 was a Trojan Horse program which claimed to be a new version of the popular compression/packing utility PKZIP. Actually the program tried to format the hard disk. This Trojan was reported in a couple of places during spring 1995. After that, it has not been seen anywhere.

For some reason, there was a renewed warning scare about the PKZIP300 Trojan during spring 1996. However, although the PKZIP300 Trojan does exist, it is extremely unlikely for anybody to actually run into it.

V2.04g is the latest official version of PKZIP.

I have heard that there are Trojan Horses capable of destroying certain PCs' motherboards for good by writing to the Flash BIOS. Is this true? Is such a thing possible?

No, we haven't seen any Trojans or viruses which can actually do so. However, according to an announcement from Microid Research, the Intel Endeavor-2 motherboards have a design problem which would make it very difficult to recover from a flash programming problem.

It seems that the flash ROM on these machines is not equipped with a write-protected failsafe recovery mode. Furthermore, the flash chip is soldered directly onto the system board.

This means that if the flash BIOS gets corrupted, it can not be reprogrammed and the chip itself cannot easily be replaced. In practice, you could lose the whole motherboard because of a program that rewrites the flash BIOS.

I have heard much about the WWW Java language and the risks inherent in it. Are there any known Java viruses?

No. The Java language itself is considered very safe, especially when compared to any common programming language. The problems lie in WWW-browsers' Java implementations; even simple errors in the browsers are known to have caused serious problems. At the moment, the Netscape 2.x browsers are known to have at least three serious gaps in security. These security holes make it possible to transfer any kind of PC code inside a Java program, and to execute it in the user's computer.

There's no real risk of running into Java viruses, but other harmful programs pose a potential threat. We recommend switching off Java support in Netscape.

New products

The old NET-PROT Novell Netware NLM scanner has now been replaced by an all-new NLM product, F-PROT Professional for Netware.

The main differences between the two products are listed in the table on next page.

Upon upgrading, NET-PROT must first be unloaded from the server. Remove also all NET-PROT-related commands from autoexec.ncf.

AlertTrace Lite should be installed and loaded before installing F-PROT for NetWare.

Initially, the administrator must install F-PROT for NetWare on every NetWare server separately. This cannot be automated either with F-PROT or the normal Netware tools. The deploy feature will take care of updating once the initial installations are in place.

Changes in F-PROT Professional version 2.23

Changes in F-PROT for DOS

Disinfection of boot sector viruses has been improved. This is readily apparent when you browse the list of viruses which were previously detected, but can only now be disinfected (following chapter).

F-PROT now detects the PKZIP 3.00B Trojan. This Trojan is, however, not a "real" threat, but, due to unfounded hysteria, numerous warnings about it are in circulation, far outnumbering actual copies of the Trojan.

Changes in F-PROT for Windows

F-PROT (Win 3.1x/NT): This scanner (available on demand) will show an error message if an attempt is made to scan a directory to which access is denied (this can happen on NTFS partitions).

F-PROT/Gatekeeper/F-Agent (Win3.1x): F-Agent's Gatekeeper Settings dialog and the main program's Protection Preferences dialog now have a "More" button. When you click it, the program brings out another dialog where you can set scans on created files, document macros and adjust visual display options. These settings were previously stored in F-PROTW.INI as undocumented options. They are now stored in F-PROTW.CFG.

F-PROT (Win95): The Distribute F-PROT Installations feature now supports Gatekeeper's installation (as Gatekeeper is included in the Windows 95 package).

The scanning engine: Document macro disinfection has been implemented. Boot sector scanning used to sometimes cause a GPF because of a bug in the scan engine. This has now been fixed

Gatekeeper (Win3.1x): A setting called LoadDelay= has been added to F-PROTW.INI's [Gatekeeper] section. The setting is used for delaying the loading of Gatekeeper. This feature can be useful in situations where many applications are loaded at Windows startup, and there's not enough conventional memory available: Gatekeeper's loading can be delayed until more memory becomes available.

The setting in F-PROTW.INI is:

  • [Gatekeeper]
  • ; if nonzero, Gatekeeper will wait for the specified number of seconds
  • ; before loading itself (default 0)
  • LoadDelay=0
  • AUTOW32: Autow32 supports the Windows 95 Gatekeeper installation. Use the same AUTOINST.INI settings that are used for installing the Windows 3.1x Gatekeeper.

    AUTOW31: If a program group creation/modification is desired, Autoinst will wait until the "Program Manager DDE" is available. Previous versions simply failed in program group creation if no Program Manager DDE was available, because Autoinst was started from a logon script before the Windows shell (Program Manager) had had time to completely boot itself up. The default timeout value is 5000 ms; you can use the [Autoinst] DDEPMTimeOut= setting to override this.

    F-Agent/Gatekeeper (Win3.1x): The dialog that says that the VxD is not loaded and Gatekeeper can't be started has now two new buttons: "Restart Windows" and "Continue". This has been implemented in F-Agent only.

    Gatekeeper (Win3.1x): After a boot sector infection has been detected and the user has clicked OK in the message box, the boot sector is scanned again to make sure that the user has removed the infected diskette. The user will not be able to continue using the computer until the diskette has been removed or replaced by another, clean diskette.

    New viruses detected by F-PROT

    The following 47 viruses are now identified, but can not be removed as they overwrite or corrupt infected files. Some of them were detected by earlier versions of F-PROT, but not identified accurately.
    Burma.442.E
    Country.611
    Crazy.1024
    Demand.666.C
    Fack.180
    HLLO.3836
    HLLO.4019
    HLLO.7680
    HLLO.8096
    HLLO.21603
    IOE.155
    IOE.239.A
    IOE.239.B
    Itti.99.D
    IVP.O.229
    Leprosy.371
    Leprosy.622
    Leprosy.625.A
    Leprosy.625.B
    Leprosy.2013
    Markiz.1972
    Milan.249
    Rauser.296
    SillyC.201
    Sod.257
    Trivial.28.D
    Trivial.42.L
    Trivial.45.J
    Trivial.45.K
    Trivial.53.B
    Trivial.53.C
    Trivial.53.D
    Trivial.53.E
    Trivial.67
    Trivial.72
    Trivial.80
    Trivial.87
    Trivial.111
    Trivial.112
    Trivial.117.B
    Trivial.284
    Trivial.963
    VCL.O.372
    VCL.O.454
    VCL.O.464
    VCL.O.466.C
    VCL.O.538

    The following 377 new viruses can now be removed. Many of them were detected by earlier versions, but are now identified accurately.


    _264
    _432
    _709
    _768
    Abbas.5660
    Acid.736
    Afraid.1036
    Alexe.1287
    Alfa.3072
    Alfons.1536
    Andris.683
    Angels.1571
    Annres.553
    Annres.972
    Annres.1052
    Antibasic.351
    Anti-C.726
    AntiCAD.4096.L
    AntiMIT.764
    Antiwin.633
    AOS.736
    AOS.744
    AOS.752
    AOS.758
    AOS.833
    AOS.847
    AOS.854
    Babol.2048
    Barrotes.1874
    Beer.2920
    BGU.1295
    BGU.1298
    Blue_Nine.925.C
    Blue_Nine.1725
    Blue_Poison.487
    BodyBuilding.884
    BootExe.444
    Boso.1037
    Boso.1388
    BW.291
    BW.343
    BW.491
    BW.495
    BW.751
    BW.Mayberry.499
    BW.Mayberry.604
    BW.Mayberry.682
    C&Y.426
    Cannabis.C
    Cascade.1701.AQ
    Cascade.1701.AR
    Cascade.1701.AS
    Cascade.1701.AT
    Cascade.1704.AD
    CB.450
    Cholera.2415
    Civil_Defense.6656.C
    Civil_IV.588
    Clisti
    Clonewar.551
    Compiac.379
    CPW.1395
    Creeper.482.B
    Cybercide.1309
    Danish_Tiny.333.D
    Dark_Avenger.1690
    Dark_Avenger.1797.B
    Dark_Avenger.1800.AC
    Dark_Avenger.1841
    Dark_Avenger.2000.M
    Dbase.1850
    Debilitated.2000
    Defo
    Delwin.1199
    DespChem.633
    DieHard.4000.B
    Ditwet.465
    Dos-1.185
    Dron.1024
    Dull_Boy.A
    Dull_Boy.B
    Dumb.192
    Dumb.215
    Eliza.1194
    Eliza.1282
    End_of.773
    Euskadi.811
    Eventide.1061
    Exemplary.586
    Exile.255
    Fack.330
    Fallen_Angel.338
    Fasola.2215
    Favorite.2576
    Fizzle.313
    Fletan.565
    Fletan.574
    Flipflop.610
    Floriana.939
    Four_Seasons.1514
    Fowl.3072
    Genvir.1600.B
    Genvir.1856
    Ginger.2337
    Glupak.847
    Glupak.890
    Greetings.297
    Gotcha
    Guppy.152.E
    Hi.680
    Hi.764
    HLLC.4045
    HLLC.4870
    HLLC.5129
    HLLC.6644
    HLLP.5872
    HLLP.9072
    HLLP.16470
    Hole.476
    Horror.1173
    Horsa.1185
    Hue.482
    Icelandic.1618.F
    Inside.752
    Intruder.1413
    IstanbulCCC
    IVP.366
    IVP.368
    IVP.371
    IVP.647.A
    IVP.647.B
    IVP.650
    IVP.751
    IVP.754
    Jack.436
    Jerusalem.1500
    Jerusalem.1607
    Jerusalem.1808.Frere.M
    Kela.2018
    Khiznjak.834
    Khiznjak.1101
    Kobrin.491
    Kouser.1648
    Kpi.329
    Kusumah.2588
    Kyokushinkai.2048.C
    La.802
    Lamego.722
    Lenin.943
    Lesson.189
    Lesson_I.301
    Letter_H.665
    Locust.1158
    Major.1644
    Mand.1061
    Maripuri.1942
    Mazur.2541
    Minzhou.1024
    Mirea.665
    Morgen.656.B
    Morgot.823
    Mosca.1278
    Mosca.1372
    Murphy.1277.C
    Nado.838
    Narcosis.1431
    Natas.4746
    NLA.333
    NLA.348
    No_frills.815.B
    No_frills.950
    NSD.267
    Nutcracker.2000.A
    Nutcracker.2000.B
    Nutcracker.2293
    Nutcracker.2725
    Nutcracker.2900
    Nutcracker.3100
    Nutcracker.3500.A
    Nutcracker.3500.B
    Nutcracker.3500.C
    Nutcracker.3500.D
    Oguro.446
    Ozzy.546
    Pantera.400
    PC-Knight.2083
    Pixel.847.L
    Plove.322
    Plove.327
    Porridge.1061
    Presumptious.680
    Proto-T.629
    Proto-T.688
    Proto-T.893
    Proto-T.1041
    Proto-T.1048
    PS-MPC.269
    PS-MPC.281
    PS-MPC.305
    PS-MPC.356
    PS-MPC.377.B
    PS-MPC.379
    PS-MPC.386.B
    PS-MPC.409
    PS-MPC.410
    PS-MPC.414.A
    PS-MPC.414.B
    PS-MPC.414.C
    PS-MPC.414.D
    PS-MPC.415.A
    PS-MPC.415.B
    PS-MPC.415.C
    PS-MPC.444.B
    PS-MPC.446.A
    PS-MPC.446.B
    PS-MPC.450
    PS-MPC.454
    PS-MPC.460
    PS-MPC.495
    PS-MPC.505
    PS-MPC.513.B
    PS-MPC.522
    PS-MPC.526.B
    PS-MPC.528.A
    PS-MPC.528.B
    PS-MPC.545
    PS-MPC.548
    PS-MPC.549
    PS-MPC.555
    PS-MPC.565.J
    PS-MPC.565.K
    PS-MPC.568
    PS-MPC.570.J
    PS-MPC.573.R
    PS-MPC.573.S
    PS-MPC.573.T
    PS-MPC.575.D
    PS-MPC.578.T
    PS-MPC.578.U
    PS-MPC.579.G
    PS-MPC.579.H
    PS-MPC.581.B
    PS-MPC.583.C
    PS-MPC.585.E
    PS-MPC.585.F
    PS-MPC.598.O
    PS-MPC.603.E
    PS-MPC.603.F
    PS-MPC.603.G
    PS-MPC.606.H
    PS-MPC.606.I
    PS-MPC.606.J
    PS-MPC.607.D
    PS-MPC.607.E
    PS-MPC.607.F
    PS-MPC.607.G
    PS-MPC.610.D
    PS-MPC.611.M
    PS-MPC.611.N
    PS-MPC.611.O
    PS-MPC.611.P
    PS-MPC.611.Q
    PS-MPC.611.R
    PS-MPC.611.S
    PS-MPC.611.T
    PS-MPC.612.H
    PS-MPC.612.I
    PS-MPC.616.D
    PS-MPC.621
    PS-MPC.625.B
    PS-MPC.634
    PS-MPC.652
    PS-MPC.661.B
    PS-MPC.666.A
    PS-MPC.666.B
    PS-MPC.701
    PS-MPC.761
    PS-MPC.808
    PS-MPC.853
    PS-MPC.921.B
    PS-MPC.929
    Rabbit
    Rael.3211.B
    Rain
    Red_Hacker.1405
    Retailer.1536
    RP.B
    RWV.549
    Rycho.1024.A
    Rycho.1024.B
    Rycho.1536.A
    Rycho.1536.B
    Salamander.940
    Satria.A
    Satria.B
    Satria.C
    Saturday.669.C
    Saynay.5115
    SE.1853
    Semi.895
    Shel.983
    Silent_Night.1111
    SillyC.91
    SillyC.139
    SillyC.175
    SillyC.192
    SillyC.253
    SillyC.302.B
    SillyC.432
    SillyC.478
    SillyComp.116
    SillyE.512
    Sirius.361
    Sirius.365
    Sirius.402
    Sirius.547.A
    Sirius.547.B
    Sirius.615.A
    Sirius.615.B
    Sirius.640.A
    Sirius.640.B
    Sirius.720
    Slava.500
    Snowfall.945
    Stay_Cool.573
    SuperF.1175
    Suriv.941.B
    SVC.2936.B
    SVC.2936.C
    SVC.2936.D
    SVC.2936.E
    Syndrome.1485
    Szatan
    Tanpro.749
    Taurus.1153
    Tequila.2469
    Tet.409
    Tiger.1116
    Trakia.1471
    Trebujena.1094
    Trieda.851
    Trooper.2259
    Tpvo.3464
    Tpvo.3654
    Uddy.2617.B
    Uklott.1327
    Union.1531
    Ups.1155
    Vampiro.1000.D
    VCC.328
    VCC.341
    VCC.357
    VCC.614
    VCL.500
    VCL.550
    VCL.822.B
    VCL.1212
    VCS.1077.M
    VCS2.799
    VD.1664
    Vesna.1000
    VFSI.426
    Vienna.559
    Vienna.595.B
    Vienna.638
    Vienna.648.SDI
    Vienna.699
    Vienna.708
    Vienna.718
    Vienna.733.B
    Vulcan.496
    Wire.3518
    YB.405
    Year_1992.1731.C
    Youareill.1186
    Xantic
    Youhave.577

    The following 125 new viruses are now detected and identified but can not yet be removed.


    _700
    _979
    _995
    _1499
    _2965
    Annihilator.599
    Annihilator.607
    Annihilator.610
    AnotherW.706
    Antifor.1110
    ARCV.800
    Ask.708
    Asmodeus.1833
    Avalgasil.666
    Batman.2844
    Bolero.1000
    Buffalo.486
    BW.688
    Civil_Defense.6656
    Coito.644
    Cordobes.3334
    Crawler.545
    Cybertech.1078
    DBF.1046
    Detic.1514
    DIR-II.1024.AB
    Doubleheart.539
    Doubleheart.553
    Doubleheart.639
    Dune.579
    Dune.672
    Emmie.2496
    Faws.2340
    Flack.1330
    Ghost.5000
    Gothic.2097
    Green_girl.1055
    Green_Monster.784
    Gregory.406
    Handel.1000
    Harvester.1422
    HLLC.7508
    HLLC.8096
    HLLP.5667.A
    HLLP.5667.B
    HLLP.6144
    HLLP.7000
    IVP.419
    IVP.449
    IVP.728
    IVP.762
    IVP.922
    Johnny.826
    Johnny.955
    Juice.305
    Lame.435
    Lame.636
    Ludwig.573
    Mac.1098
    Manic.2143
    Mantis.1215
    Maresme.1062
    Mark.2660
    Mef.1481
    Mef.1538
    Moonlite.338
    MPTI.1536.B
    Nocopy.3655
    Notyet.1277
    Notyet.1577
    November_17th.1045
    NRLG.914
    NRLG.926
    NRLG.933
    NRLG.940
    NRLG.963
    NRLG.982.B
    NRLG.984
    NRLG.990
    NRLG.1010
    PCBB.3072.C
    Peel.334
    Phalcon.1136
    Pincher.1632
    Pirania.1617
    Predator.1070
    Predator.2424
    Prohibit.1500
    Quish.333
    Rape.1883
    Rape.2496
    Riot.464
    Rotator.869
    Rubbit.3164
    SanLoreno.1025
    Saratov.1790
    Scitzo.1337
    Shadow.1185
    Shadow.1702
    Shel.973
    Shel.988
    Small_comp.100.B
    Sochi.703
    Spinner.1071
    Svetlana.1110
    Svetlana.2060
    Svetlana.3410
    Svetlana.4734
    Swiss.921
    TCH.1909
    Tease.840
    Unskip.1908
    Vampiro.1492
    Vampiro.1542
    Vampiro.1619
    Vampiro.1621
    VCC.537
    VCL.522
    Werewolf.684.B
    WinVik.A
    WinVik.B
    WordMacro/Atom
    WordMacro/Imposter
    WordMacro/Nuclear.B
    WordMacro/Xenixos
    Yankee_Doodle.XPEH.4048.B

    The following new virus is now detected, but not identified. F-PROT will just report the family name with a (?) or report the virus as a "New or modified variant", as it is not yet able to determine which variant it is dealing with. Disinfection of this virus is not yet possible.


    Tentacle

    The following 60 viruses which were identified by earlier versions can now be removed.


    3_NOPs
    Abs-3.A
    Abs-3.B
    Boot_Intruder
    Brasil
    Cannabis.A
    Cannabis.B
    Crazy_Eddie.A
    Crazy_Eddie.B
    Diskwasher.A
    Diskwasher.B
    EB79
    Flame.A
    Flame.B
    Galicia
    Godoy
    Ibex
    JKTK
    Kaczor.4444
    Lavot.A
    Lavot.B
    Lch15
    Lulu
    Malaga
    MISiS.A
    MISiS.B
    MISiS.C
    MISiS.D
    Mr_D.1536
    MzBoot.464
    Nichols.A
    Nichols.B
    Nichols.C
    Peter
    PMBS.A
    PMBS.B
    RM.A
    RM.B
    Satria.A
    SheHas
    Smiley_Boot
    Stoned.8.A
    Stoned.8.B
    Stoned.Stonehenge
    Swiss_Boot.A
    Swiss_Boot.B
    Tony_Boot.A
    Tony_Boot.B
    Verify
    Whirl.A
    Whirl.B
    Whirl.C
    Windmill
    X-3a.A
    X-3a.B
    Yankee_Doodle.1817
    Yankee_Doodle.2505
    Yankee_Doodle.XPEH.3600
    Yankee_Doodle.XPEH.3840
    Yankee_Doodle.XPEH.4016
    The following viruses have been renamed:
    Bones -> Ibex
    Breasts -> SheHas
    Hello -> Sirius
    Ilove -> Satria
    Sno -> Snowfall


    F-PROT Professional 2.23 Update Bulletin

    F-Secure Ltd, Paivantaite 8, FIN-02210 ESPOO, Finland
    Tel. +358-0-478 444, Fax +358-0-478 44 599, E-mail: F-PROT-Support@F-Secure.com
    This material can be freely quoted when the source, F-PROT Professional
    Update Bulletin 2.23 is mentioned. Copyright (c) 1996 F-Secure Ltd.
    

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