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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Wanted: info about Dos 5.0 virus (1578?) (PC)
- Message-ID: <0010.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 15 Jan 93 06:34:02 GMT
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- lvandyke@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Lee Van Dyke) writes:
-
- > I have just been informed of a virus in command.com (47,845 4-9-91) of
- > Dos 5.0. Can anyone give me info on this?
-
- Please, check you source of information, before spreading rumors like
- that... We had enough of PKZ204C and definitively to not need the same
- story repeated for DOS. Also, please read the FAQ, question F4, in
- order to learn how to report suspected virus infections.
-
- In your particular case:
-
- 1) Where do you have this information form? The local pirate BBS, an
- unmoderated newsgroup, a friend, a newspaper, a computer magazine,
- Microsoft's tech support?
-
- 2) What does the information say exactly? If it says nothing more that
- COMMAND.COM in DOS 5.0 is rumored to contain a virus, then you can
- safely ignore it. Rumors like that appear with every new DOS version.
-
- 3) What -facts- support the claim that there is a virus? Does any
- scanner report it? Does it replicate?
-
- 4) Does your information source report a virus infection of a
- particular site, of the system diskettes distributed by a particular
- OEM vendor, of the diskettes distributed by Microsoft?
-
- 5) If there has been an official report about an infection from the
- supplier, for which geographical area does it apply? The net
- distributed your message all over the world.
-
- 6) At last, -which- DOS? MS-DOS, produced by Microsoft, or PC-DOS,
- produced by IBM?
-
- All in all, your message is either based on some local infection, or
- (more likely) is just a rumor. Until it is confirmed (and I doubt that
- it will ever be), just ignore it.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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