Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Memory glitch?
Message-ID: <4382@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 19:08:52 GMT
References: <4190@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <4190@husc6.harvard.edu> norman@husc4.UUCP () writes:
>memory glitch 
> 
>I have been having what seems to be a memory glitch on a DOS 2.11
...
>It is highly unlikely that this system has been exposed to 
>viruses.  DOS is in ROM, and all software has been reloaded from
>factory originals. 

This does not guarantee getting rid of viruses, and the rest of the
description sounds an awful lot like a virus.  No guarantees though.

To get rid of viruses, remove all diskettes, turn on the cpu, wait
for DOS (from rom) to come up, insert your original DOS utilities
disk containing the FORMAT command, and reformat all of your working
disks.  

Of course this only works if your DOS utilities diskette has been 
write-protected (tab) since before the first time you EVER used it,
as otherwise it too probably has caught the virus by now.  The same
goes for all other "factory originals".  

First law of Safe-Exchanges:  write protect the "factory original"
BEFORE EVER inserting it into your system.

Second law of Safe-Ex:  run a virus scan program on all factory 
originals before EVER running any software off of them, as even 
these may arrive with viruses (unknown to the factory, of course).
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