Why does my virus scanning software pick up a virus on the Sample Program CD?
The files on the CD were produced by Microsoft in 1992, long before many of the current viruses were written. Virus scanning programs search for matching strings of bytes, and by coincidence, strings from at least one program on the CD match. For example, the file cref.exe, in the \BIN directory seems to match an existing virus string. Anyway, I use the same files on my own computer, and neither I nor anyone else I know has had a problem with the assembler files.
