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From: rmartin@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Azusa Virus Found on factory diskettes
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Date: 23 Apr 91 10:51:13 GMT
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The Azusa virus has appeared at DTRC.  While checking software for
viruses, I found the Azusa virus on several diskettes belonging to a
systems I was checking out.  Upon further investigation, I made a
startling discovery.  The Azusa virus was found on one of the VGA
utilities disks.

This disk was a 5 1/4 1.2mb HD floppy and was factory read only (no
notch).  The virus was on disk one of a three disk set.

The disks were labeled TVGA - 8916.  According to the manual, TVGA is
a trademark of "Trident Microsystems, Inc.

I notified our supplier of this finding and had them check their
remaining supply of TVGA software and they verified that ALL of their
disk one of three TVGA - 8916 utilities disks were infected with the
Azusa virus.

This supplier told me that at least 10,000 TVGA units per week are
being distributed worldwide by many suppliers.

I would suggest that if you have these drivers, they should not be
used until verified to be virus-free.

	   Good Luck ....... Bob