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From: fong@ksuvax1.ksu.ksu.EDU (Eric Fong)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: sudden reboot on PC (PC)
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Date: 5 Nov 90 22:52:23 GMT
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Hi,
	I have posted an article on comp.windows.ms sometime ago,
seems like there are quite a few people having this problem, so I
decided to post the problem here also, since I suspect this might be a
new virus or trojan-horse.  The problem is this, it started 2 to 3
weeks ago, my PC starts to reboot itself once or twice a day without
any reason.  At first, I thought it was something about the window 3,
but it proved to be wrong because it also reboot itself under Procomm,
some other people replied to me that their PC reboots even under other
non-communication softwares.  I used scanv67c to check, but it didn't
report any virus and probably wouldn't do so since the phenomenon
started to appear 2 to 3 weeks ago.  I wonder if there is anyone in
the netland has the same problem, and if so, is there a guess of why
this happens and how to fix the problem.  Thanks in advance.

My machine is Zenith 248/12, running DOS3.3+ and himem.sys, smartdrv
installed.

- --Eric Fong-- (fong@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu, fong@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)