Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!purdue!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Probable NON-DOS Disk
Message-ID: <49430@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 90 22:23:43 GMT
Organization: malkaryotic
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cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) <413@beartrk.beartrack.com> :
| However, you really want to know what caused this problem to avoid any more
| serious damage to your data.  One way to do this is to fix the corrupted 
| byte.  Then keep a record of what you are doing between reasonably often
| runs of CHKDSK.  If you get the error message agian, you know that it was
| caused by something that occurred between that run and the last clear run
| of CHLDSK.

Right, sounds good...

This problem seems to show up on the net every month or so.  My turn was
last year sometime.  Has ANYONE had it happen twice, so they could
reasonably try to track down the culprit?  My software usage patterns
have not changed significantly since it happened to me.

I stick by my theory, this is the only symptom of the subtlest virus
written to date....  Gee.  Maybe it's a self-immunizing virus, to boot
(so to speak :-).