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October 99 MSDN Introduces Virus?
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05/11/1999 16:54:19
 
 
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05/11/1999 16:23:42
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Visual FoxPro
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00287784
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>On the CD it's on Disk 1, \x86\os\system\ colchng.exe, 36,864 bytes, Creted/Modified Sunday August 22, 1999 5:13:50 PM.

It sounds like the same one that I have, at least by file size and date/time stamp. VirusScan gives it a clean bill of health with the DAT file from 11/3/99

>I was using the NAV definitions file dated 11/1/99.
>
>McAfee doens't see it....can you give particulars such as File date, Size, Time, etc?
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>>>Holy Crap, Batman!
>>>
>>>I'll check that right now and reply back........
>>>
>>>
>>>>After installing the October MSDN, I ran Norton AntiVirus (NAV 5.02-NT), and it reported that C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSDN\1033\COLCHNG.EXE, contained a "Trojan Horse" virus. I submitted this to the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC), and they confirmed it. I rechecked the CD and it is also "infected".
>>>>
>>>>First, can anyone else, using an alternate virus checker, confirm this? Second, anyone know what COLCHNG.EXE is used for? The only reference to this I could find was in the registry, and it indicates that PID.EXE "calls" it. I could find no reference to either .EXE in the MSDN search.
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