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- From: mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: OS/2 system stopped due to virus (FAT partition)? (OS/2) (PC)
- Message-ID: <0016.9211121950.AA09997@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 18:42:34 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Hello Wey Jing Ho,
-
- you write:
- >My PC has just been infected by an unknown virus (both McAfee Scan
- >Version 97 and CPAV failed to identify it/them). SCAN only report that
- >all of the hard disk boot sectors have been modified (as compared to a
- >CRC file created before the infection). I have both MS-DOS 5.00 and
- >OS/2 (with the latest CSD) installed with DOS on FAT and OS/2 on HPFS.
- [...deleted...]
-
- If you are running an OS/2 Dual Boot system, SCAN will report that the
- boot sector has been modified when you switch from DOS to OS/2. This
- is because OS/2 swaps the boot sector on the drive depending on which
- operating system you are using.
-
- Regards,
-
- Aryeh Goretsky
- Technical Support
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