For more info on it, hit the McAfee virus library page. I also received a disk on grant applications from the Colorado Department of Justice. This one had ANTI-CMOS as a bonus deal. ANTI-CMOS is a very crudely written virus which can be easily removed if infection does occur. It seems that McAfee was picking up a false signature from the CD Write process that Diamond was using to create the CD disks used for files on their FTP site.
Schools are notorious vectors for computer viruses.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, there are all sorts of students who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous, and they swap disks around with little thought of the consequences. Any school with a decent computer program has its share of hackers and others who bootleg programs with great vigor. Secondly, schools tend to be quite sloppy in running virus scans, keeping the scans updated if they do have them, or restricting access to the floppies and other means of introducing unwanted little guests on the drives. Government machinery is another notorious vector for viruses, if for no other reason than the government is always way behind the power curve on keeping up with software technology - virus scans.