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From: eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev)
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Subject: Hardware failures & viruses (PC)
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Date: 21 Mar 91 13:12:30 GMT
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Approx. a week ago I was invited to a computer to find a virus.
Accidental symbols were appearing on the screen every minute or two
ones. The original reason was NOT connected with any virus and lay in
the incompatability between time characteristics of video RAM and
processor plus(?) magnetic anomalies in the athmosphere.  I am very
often disturbed by users who takes hardware failures for a virus. And
some time a hardware problems managed someone to note the presense of
a virus. I think the similar situation was in the case noted by Adam
M. Gaffin last month.  What could we do to help users to distinct
viruses and failures ?  Except scanners, of course.

Eldar A. Musaev			lomi.spb.su!eldar@fuug.fi
researcher, Ph.D., Mathem.Inst., Acad. of Sci., Leningrad