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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:34:15 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro/DJGPP and false virus alerts
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Adam Lawrence wrote:
> 
>     Has anyone out there virus-scanned any DJGPP/Allegro programs and got a
> "Cold3927" virus warning?
> 
>     I've tried a bunch of scanners on my home PC (NAV, PC-cillin,
> InoculateIT, and AntiViral Toolkit) which say everything is clean. I copied
> two different programs I've written using DJGPP and Allegro to an unused
> disk to test them out on a PC at work. The work PC, which uses Cheyenne,
> claims that they're infected with Cold3927 and can't clean them. Any program
> I've written that uses Allegro and DJGPP seem to trigger it.

This sounds awfully familiar, search the archives.  There was a report
that some virus scanner falsely claimed all DJGPP programs were infected
by some virus, and the ones you mention are familiar.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com