Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: SYKLB@NASAGISS.BITNET (Ken Bell) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: scan problems (PC) Message-ID: <0002.8912071243.AA12878@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 89 14:44:52 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 18 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu > I just downloaded and uudecoded Scanv49.arc and Scanrs49.arc from > Simtel. The trouble is that when I try to execute either of them the > pc I'm using hangs! From the combination of this and the next quote, I'd guess that he's trying to execute the .ARC files directly instead of unarcing them first. > know I have a virus stalking around here and somehow attached to all > labelled disks which makes me believe it infected Label.com. Not only > that, I recently bought both Pctools 5.1 and Turbo C 2 & Assembler and > on doing executing simply Dir to check the contents of the diskettes > they all reported one hidden file with size 0 bytes! They couldn't > have left Central Points and Borland already infected! I've just found > out to my discomfort that practically all pc's here are infected. Yeah. It's the disk label (hidden file, 0 bytes). Acknowledge-To: