NOTICE:
If you receive a message when downloading
the "PrintTags.exe", "PrintEnv.exe", or "centerruler.exe" from your McAfee
AntiVirus (using DAT 4094); and maybe some other antivirus software that
tells you that the file is infected with the BackDoor... virus read the
following email from Virus_Research@NAI.com, if you have any questions
about this or you MacAfee Antivirus program please email them directly.
Subject:
RE: Incorrectly saying a file has a virus with your 4094 DAT
Date:
Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:33:41 -0700
From:
Virus Research
To:
"'Phil Schloss'"
Hello Phil,
We've found a false identification of our VS 4.x product, which could not be
found during extensive testing of clean files in our QA department prior to
our DAT-file posting.
The current DAT set, posted last night, has corrected the problem. Please
update, and/or advise your customers to update. Feel free to post this text
to your web page.
Our technical support is available to assist you with product-related
comments and questions including reviewing your configurations, updating
your engine/dat files.
Use the following links to reach online technical support for NAI
products.
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/support/default.asp
http://software.mcafee.com/support/tech_supp/msgboards.asp
Regards,
Sally Hines
Virus Research Analyst
McAfee AVERT
A division of Network Associates, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Schloss [mailto:phil@redcastle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 7:59 PM
To: virus_research@nai.com
Subject: Incorrectly saying a file has a virus with your 4094 DAT
MacAfee Antivirus is incorrectly saying a file has a virus with
your 4094 DAT. If you go to
http://www.red-castle.com/software/software.htm
you can get all the information.
If you do not fix your problem soon, I will be forced out
of business, I had 2000 downloads of the program since
8/29 and today there were almost none.
Phil
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This tiny program listing shows what is in my programs that
MacAfee's latest antivirus does not like. Even if you are not
a programmer you if you read this you should be able to understand
that THERE ARE NO VIRUSES in the Red Castle Freeware, EVEN THOUGH
some versions of MacAfee and maybe other antivirus programs flag
it as being infected.
This is a Delphi 5.0 program. What it does when executed is
create a file named "c:\Program Files\Red Castle Inc\test.txt"
if the directory path exists. The file will contain two lines:
'this is a test of MacAfee AntiVirus'
'HP LaserJet 2100 Series PCL 6 on LPT7:HP'
If this program is scanned as described above, it will show
that it is infected. If then the indicated line is commented
out or removed and the program re-ran, it will create the file
with only the first line, and when the program is scanned it
will show that it is not infected.
All this program is supposed to do is get the name of the
current printer, to use when printing the tags, envelopes, etc.
Have one of your computer programming friends look at this,
and they will tell you that the program is not a virus itself.
They may try and argue that the program is not a virus but
could have been infected, but that is not a valid arguement in
this case because we are running the program both ways on the
same system and can switch back and forth as many times as you
want and the results are 100% consistent, as stated above.
I do not beleive that anyone that wants to use any of the
software that I have on my website to download will have any
viruses due to my software, what they pickup somewhere else
that is a different story.
Finally, I have now invested almost 3 times as much time in
proving that my software is clean then it took me to write
the software in the first place, I write these little
programs to relax when I am having trouble debugging what I
do for a living. The last 60 hours have not been relaxing.
So if I receive one more email from anyone saying that
my software caused "their system to crash and burn" or
"have 4 new viruses" or whatever bad happened, I will close
the downloads down. I can not afford to spend over $3000
again, to prove that there is not a problem.
You may send this email, un-editted to anyone you wish.
Thanks for listening, and more thanks to those who believed,
and hope that they were a valuable resource to many of you.
Phil
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unit Unit1;
interface
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs,
StdCtrls ,Printers;
type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
procedure FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
end;
var
Form1: TForm1;
implementation
{$R *.DFM}
procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
var
LA : TStringList;
begin
LA := TStringList.Create;
LA.Add('this is a test of MacAfee AntiVirus');
{Comment out the next line to pass the latest full
download with 4094 DAT, with this line in the program
MacAfee will say the file is infested with "BackDoor-GZ.srv"}
LA.Add(Printer.Printers[Printer.Printerindex]);
LA.SaveToFile('c:\Program Files\Red Castle Inc\test.txt');
LA.Free;
Close;
end;
end.
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Thanks
Phil
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