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From: rebill02%ULKYVX.BITNET@jade.Berkeley.EDU (Russell E. Billings)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Musicbug virus (PC)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 06:02:00 GMT
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CCMH@MVS.MCGILL.CA (Michael Head) writes:
>Using SCAN 6.1B71 on randomly selected,file-protected,
>previously unopened sets of COMBASE or SVGA UTILITY
>disks 1 and 2 I get :
>"Found Music Boot Virus [Muboot] in Boot Sector"

The system I bought and mentioned a short time ago on VIRUS-L came
with a slightly different set of disks.  The description of the
COMBASE disk that is infected exactly matches what I received with my
system, but my VGA utilities came on a single HD disk.

The VGA disk is labeled "PBVGA-MULTI Utility Disk 16 bit VGA"
underneath the Packard Bell logo.  I have run Scan 6.1b71 against both
the PBVGA and the COMBASE disks that I have and found no infection.

Idle Speculation : There are at least two different series of the
Packmate 386sx machines - the major difference being in the size of
the hard drive installed.  Could the 40 Mbyte systems have the problem
while the 86 Mbyte systems do not?  Was I just lucky?

Russell E. Billings
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