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From: ELINZE@YALEVM.BITNET (Naama Zahavi-Ely)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Yale virus (PC)
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Date: 1 Dec 89 21:17:37 GMT
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Hello!

The Yale/Alameda virus is essentially harmless.  The message you
report was not present in the version of the virus that I am familiar
with; are you sure it comes from the virus and not from some line in
the autoexec.bat file?  If it does come from the virus, then you are
dealing with a different version than the one I know and you should
take my information with a grain of salt.

The Yale virus that I know is a boot sector virus.  It is easy to get
rid of -- boot the computer from a clean, write-protected floppy and
give the command SYS x:, with x: being the drive holding the infected
disk.  The Yale virus that I know does not infect hard disks.

I hope this helps!  Best wishes,
- -Naama