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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: "FORM" Virus
- Message-ID: <bontchev.722514599@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <coiLuB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:29:59 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- m4tangla@student.business.uwo.ca (Michael Tanglao) writes:
-
- > I am currently having problems getting rid of the "FORM" virus from our LAN
- > sys.
-
- Form is a boot sector virus, therefore it cannot spread accross LANs.
-
- > Does anyone know anything about this virus? Norton Anti-Virus does not
-
- There are detailled descriptions of it in Patricia Hoffman's VSUM and
- VTC-Hamburg's Computer Virus Catalog. Both are available for anonymous
- ftp; the first as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/vsumx210.zip and the second
- as ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/virus/texts/catalog/msdosvir.zip.
-
- > seem to eliminate it, although F-prot does. I am using F-prot on all the
- > stations, so I thought I had taken care of it. Unfortunately, some bizarre
-
- Be careful to use version 2.06a of F-Prot. The previous versions have a
- bug which prevents them from removing the virus from large partitions
- (larger than 255 tracks). Nothing is damaged; they just refuse to
- remove the virus.
-
- > Does anyone know anything about what this virus does? Are there Norton virus
-
- In short: infects the DOS boot sectors of the disk(ette)s. On 24th of
- every month the virus activates and makes the keys "click" when
- pressed. There is a variant reported, which activates on 18th instead,
- but I have not seen it yet.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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