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- From: ede890psft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Possible Virus Infection - info pls (PC)
- Message-ID: <0001.9208311930.AA08349@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 12:57:06 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Readers,
-
- I am not sure whether this is an occurrence of a virus, but it does
- seem strange.
-
- On Sunday, 23/8/92 (not US date format folks), a young 11 y.o. friend
- called me and asked me for my advice. He owns a clone 286 PC and was
- attempting to copy a file from a floppy to the hard disk. When using
- the copy command, the machine would hang.
-
- Earle (your author), being a smarty, said, no worries. I obtained their
- DOS disk, write protected, and did a file compare between the
- COMMAND.COM on the DOS disk and the hard disk. The two files were
- the same size but contained different info. I did not retain the
- comparison or the old COMMAND.COM.
-
- Other problems experienced at the same time:-
- - - files and directories have disappeared.
- - - SCAN 80(?) reports no virus (I know, it is an old version but
- I didn't have my toolkit with me).
-
- I have quarantined the machine and post this for thoughts, requests,
- advice ....
-
- The problem seems!! to have stopped but I think that the solution was
- too easy.
-
- Earle ORENSTEIN
- Student Nbr 11188707
- GR Dip Comp
- Monash University Faculty of Computing
- ede890@mings3.cc.monash.edu.au
-