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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- (X) This information was verified verbally.
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