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Number: A2TH081490U324
Subject: Drive Problems Caused by "Joshi" Virus
Date: September 14, 1990
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GENERAL
INFORMATION: A customer was having strange problems. His 1.2MB floppy on
his workstation suddenly started formatting all of his
diskettes as 360's.
His hard drive would disappear when trying to boot. If he
booted to DOS first, then it would come back. Netscan
identfied a virus called the "Joshi" virus on his
workstation.
He called us because someone uploaded it to their file
server. We don't know what effect this will have, but it's
not promising. Apparently this virus may come from India.
This is a new virus so it's not too widespread yet.
(X) This information was verified verbally.