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From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Chinese Bomb (PC)
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Date: 29 May 91 17:21:40 GMT
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ADMN8621@RYERSON.BITNET (Larry Anta) writes:

>The following message appeared on one of our IBM PCs:

>                          VP    9z     U(    5/

>                   ----  C h i n e s e    B o m b   ----

>                          ( Made in China  1989 )


>C:\WORD>
>C:\WORD>

>According to one of our technicians, the hard disk was "trashed" at
>that point.  (He says he had to format it.)

>Any help would be appreciated.  (McAfee's SCAN V75 comes up clean.)

There was a story on the radio this morning about a 'BEIJING' virus,
set to go off on the 2nd anniversary of the Tienimen Square Massacre.
The story went on to imply that this virus is on hundreds of thousands
of computers all over China.  (I didn't know there *were* hundreds of
thousands of computers in China...)  Is this related?

Michael Nolan
nolan@helios.unl.edu