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From: CA6692@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Vince Laurent - work id)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Another attack?!? (PC)
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Date: 9 Nov 89 19:51:40 GMT
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We have encountered something that appears to be a virus of some sort.
The symptoms are :
     1. When an EXE file is run that is 'infected' the screen gets lines
        and garbage that looks like 'snow' (TV term there...)
     2. After a few runs it changes the file length to 0.
     3. When the disk is checked using some utilites there are numerous
        'bad sectors' scattered on the disk.
Side Note: The color of the 'snow' is the same as the last application that
           ran (ie when Norton Editor is run with a green screen - there is
           green snow, white screen editing makes white snow, etc...)

I have not been able to 'capture' this virus to get a look at the code. I
know of 3 cases so far, some of my coworkers have run across it too.

Any ideas on what it might be?

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                        | Vincent J. Laurent                        |
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p.s. please! no comments about yellow snow...