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- From: MOPURC01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU (Michael Purcell)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Virus Identity? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0017.9211171913.AA17490@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:07:22 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Cataloging Manager, Kornhauser Library
- (502) 588-5767
-
- A local user believes he had a virus. I am waiting for more
- information from him, but I was wondering if anyone could identify the
- problem or the virus from the following limited information:
-
- "There seems to be a new virus on the market right now, and it does
- only one thing.. It scramble both FATs and writes them to disk.. So
- when you comeback to copy or read or pull a file from that floppy, you
- get the ARIF error {Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail}.. If you have it, you
- will find that even a low level format will not clear the problem.
- Nortons is about the same, with the virus. Both are useless. The
- survival of a perfectly good disk depends on unmarking the 0 sector.
- The virus apparently marks this sector bad on the disk and you must
- then remove it. Nortons disktool will not even read the disk. It just
- throws a low level format screen up. The only way is to go manual or
- toss the disk."
-
- None of the locally prominent viruses resemble this vague
- description. Does anyone have any idea what problem (virus or not)
- could scramble both copies of the FAT and mark the first sector of a
- floppy as bad?
-
- Michael Purcell, Cataloging Manager
- Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville
- MOPURC01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu / MOPURC01@ULKYVM.Bitnet / FAX:(502)588-8527
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