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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: It can happen to anyone :-(  (PC)
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Date: 24 Oct 89 11:18:37 GMT
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Well - now I know of one victim of the Datacrime-II virus .....
myself. :-(

Last Tuesday I was demonstrating how any known virus could be stopped
with my anti-virus program. Unfortunately I had forgotten that it was
not installed at the time :-(

So, when I ran a program infected with DataCrime-II, I just got the
message

        DATACRIME II

Bye bye hard disk......

I turned the computer off, but when I turned it on again the computer
would of course not boot from the hard disk, but instead jumped into
BASIC.

When I booted from a diskette, the computer would not even admit that
drive C: existed.

It sounds bad, but this took only a few minutes to fix, simply by...

    ... formatting track 0 with correct parameters
    ... running NDD

and everything was back to normal again.

phew !
                        -- frisk

[Ed. NDD = Norton Disk Doctor, right?]