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From: ROGER@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu (Roger Safian, VAX Systems Group)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Preventing the "Ping Pong" virus (PC)
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Date: 4 Dec 89 16:42:00 GMT
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Greetings,

    We seem to have an outbreak of the "Ping Pong" virus here at
Northwestern University.  I am wondering if there is some sort of
anti-ping-pong utility out there.  Is there such a thing that would
allow writes to a disk, but only if it is not to the boot blocks?
What is the best way to combat this beast.  I think we have version B
here, as it infects floppies as well as hard disks.

    On a related subject, what is the latest version of viruscan?

                                        Thanks in advance
                                           Roger Safian