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From: cdbenaiah@trillium.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: I need help !!! (PC)
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Date: 8 Feb 91 18:12:00 GMT
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Help!!!

I think I was savaged by a virus/trojan/nasty type of thing. My hard
drive (120 MB PS/2 ESDI drive) has been savaged. It no longer is
recognized at boot up. Apparently this virus thing or whatever wrote
over the partition table. I ran fdisk and set up the original
partition, and now it recognizes my hard drive, but when I try to read
C: it says 'Invalid media type drive C'. I can run Norton Utilities in
maintenance mode, and it will read the info on the disk, but otherwise
I can't read it. When I run the technical information section of
norton it says my hard drive is a 360K drive :-(.

What can I do? Am I toast forever, or is the data/directories
recoverable?  I was running FRECOVER from norton before it bombed,
will this help? Can Norton help? Do I need something else like MACE
utilities (I have heard they can recover from this)? The way I see it
is the nasty tried to write its boot sector over the hard drive, thus
making it think it is a 360K floppy and just die. What are my chances
of data recovery here? Can anyone recommend a program to help, or
better yet, send me one???

All help appreciated! Please send mail right away - I need help quickly!!!

Thanks in advance...