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- From: Michel_Gerber@bearsden.UUCP (Michel Gerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Virus Advice needed
- Message-ID: <Michel_Gerber.042m@bearsden.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:30:38 GMT
- Organization: The Bear's Den BBS (715) 839-7997
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- This may not be the best area for this message, but the BBS I'm using
- doesn't carry any Virus Areas, besides this has a lot to do with Misc DOS
-
- My cousin's computer in Iowa has justed been stoned!!! He called me a
- couple
- of nights ago requesting help. He is getting the "Your Computer has been
- Stoned" message on occasion, and Windows is detecting a possible virus
- since
- it can't run in 32 bit enhanced mode because something else -- the virus --
-
- is taking up a certain memory location.
-
- Get this!!! He got the virus from Target, as far as we can tell that is.
- He
- recently bought California Games put out by a company called EPYX (I would
- like to get a hold of this company, but they didn't give their adderess)
- Why do we think it was from the game's disk?
- 1. The program won't work to start with
- 2. He didn't start getting the virus until after he accidently
- re-booted with that disk in the drive, causing the Non-system
- disk
- error, this method is a popular virus transporter
-
- We have discovered that his IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files had been modified!!!
- Comparing with those on a start-up disk, we found the bytes to be the same
- but the time and date were different. Since the system works fine when
- booted from floppy and still using the hard drive to load all other device
- drivers, we assumme that the virus has only affected the hard drives boot
- sector and/or files. I instructed him to try to replace the modified SYS
- files with those from the floppy, but I haven't heard from him yet to know
- if that worked.
-
- I am sending him McAfee's Virus Scanner and Clean-Up program to check his
- files and make sure the system is clean, and to check to see if the virus
- really did come from the California Games disk. Hopeful he can keep his
- data safe.
-
- I once again would like help tracking down the company EPYX which puts the
- game out. The package was shrink wraped at time of purchase, so unless
- Target re-wrapped it, is would have to have come from EPYX.
-
- What other advice shoud I give him, what DOS methods are able to fix the
- problem other than re-formatting and installing everything over again?
-
- Please E-Mail me if you have any advice
- My adderess is Michel_Gerber@bearsden.UUCP
-
- Thanks a lot, Mike
-
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