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Subject: Disk boot failure ? (PC)
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Date: 28 Aug 90 19:02:06 GMT
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Disk boot failure ?
Moshe vainer had just described the phenomena of reviving a dead disk.
Well, a friend of mine just bought a used disk, and after a week use it
started reporting read/write errors and fill itself with bad sectoers.
The disk went to repair and was found fully operational, but under
severe Viral attack... The virus was identified as PingPong, but I
doubdt it, since the PingPong doesn't cause SUCH trouble. Since both
cases happened in Israel : the one diskette land, the homeland of
Viruses... Maybe, Just maybe, we are encountering a new, unknown, virus
???
Good luck !      Shahar.