NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/virus/5015

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From: [e-mail] (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: msd - bug ? virus ? coincidence ? (PC)
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Date: 20 Jan 93 17:26:11 GMT
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Someone suggested that I use the msd.exe program that comes with
Windows 3.1 to diagnose some memory problems I've been having (or so
they predicted).  So I started up the program, and started looking at
the first info dialog it gave,l which was motherboard info, as I
recall.  Shortly after opening the dialog box, my hard disk started
whirring away at an alarming rate, for about 8-10 seconds.  Then it
stopped, and the speaker beeped a number of times, and my system
locked up.  Now whenever I try to reboot from the HD, it goes into an
endless cycle of resetting itself.  I can boot from floppy, but most
of the DOS commands are corrupted.  This floppy happens to be my PC
Tools recovery disk; when I run diskfix, there is a VERY long delay
while it tries to figure out my partition tables ( my secondary HD has
some linux partitions), and then it eventually locks up while trying
to figure out lost sectors, etc (at least, I got tired of waiting
after 10 minutes).  I borrowed Notron Disk doctor, but it didn't get
any further.

SO - are there any known bugs in the windows diagnostic program.  Has
anyone heard of a virus that fits this description ?  ( None of my
checking programs detect any viruses).  Or does it sound like an
unrelated problem that happened to crop up when running msd ?

Thanks in advance,   Scott

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Scott Mitchell

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