Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: hofmeist@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Hofmeister) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Novell virus? (PC) Message-ID: <0006.9012111924.AA23660@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Dec 90 22:03:26 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 11 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu I know a company which has strange problems under Novell: They get lots of zeroes (=ASCII 48) into their ASCII-files where they don't belong. In fact, in some files, one in 500 bytes gets corrupted in such a way that bit number 4 gets set to 1. (So the 48 comes from 32 +16). Might this be that there's something wrong with the installation or is this phenomenon already known as a virus? Excuse if this has been discussed on this group before, but I'm new here. - ---------------- Thomas Hofmeister, hofmeist@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de