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- From: johnl@yang.earlham.edu (John Fiskio-Lasseter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: *WEIRD* floppy drive error...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134904.20703@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:49:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.232946.20701@yang.earlham.edu> <1h7erhINN7d4@cs.tut.fi>
- Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
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- In article <1h7erhINN7d4@cs.tut.fi>, pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380) writes:
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- >> If not, the drive will crap out
- >> ("GENERAL FAILURE READING DRIVE A:", etc.), and the FAT and BOOT sectors
- >> of the disk are destroyed (interestingly, ViruSafe reports that the disks
- >> are infected with Michelangelo, although they are most certainly not).
- >
- > Umm .. didn't read this part when I wrote the last sentence ...
- > I still think it is some ... *gasp* ... VIRUS.
-
- Except that (1)In order for Michelangelo to spread to other disks, you
- need to boot from and infected disk, (2)Even if there were a Michelangelo
- infection, there would be some trace of the FAT and BOOT left, and (3)I
- tried booting from a known clean floppy with the hard drive physically
- disconnected from the machine. The only possible way there could be a
- viral infection is if it were living in the CMOS, which Michelangelo does
- not do. Besides, I also switched out the BIOS which would have eliminated
- that possibility anyway.
-
- -- John
-
- p.s. Sorry about the post to comp.os.msdos.misc. I wasn't watching where
- I was. Followups should be in c.s.i.p.h. now.
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