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- Path: EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!hell!aard
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 14:32:38 GMT+1
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- Subject: Virus
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- From: aard@hell.xs4all.nl (Aard Keimpema)
- Message-ID: <aard.0hdv@hell.xs4all.nl>
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- Hello Shadower,
- In a message dated 22 Feb 96 you wrote to All :
-
- S> Hello....!
-
-
- S> Last week I encountered what I believe to be a virus but to this day I am
- S> still unable to determine which virus it was and what caused it.
-
- S> I have a hunch it was a search util I grabbed off aminet a few weeks ago.
- S> (fsearch.lha) in util/sys. It is a replacement for the amigados command
- S> search but much faster.
-
- S> Back to the virus... What it did was corrupt corrupt several hundred of
- S> my files with the 'y' character. In case this does not translate well it
- S> is a lowercase y with 2 horizontal dots above it. Some of my files were
- S> fill with nothing but this character. I all the cases I saw the filesize
- S> remained the same. I have since restored an old backup and things seem
- S> to be back to normal. I ran virus_checker on the drive and it came up
- S> emtpy.
-
- S> Any clues to what virus this may be?
-
- S> Thanks for any help!!!!
-
- No, but maybe VirusZ can find it, it's more recent than Virus Checker. (current
- version dated 2.2.96)
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- Bye,
- Aard
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