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From: BHOLMES@WAYNEST1.BITNET (Brian Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Possible Virus! (Boot Sector)
Message-ID: <8804010103.AA17773@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Apr 88 00:42:23 GMT
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I recently posted about a disk crash problem I was having.
This disk just crashed on me and here is a dump of the boot sector.

   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 603800004E4E4E4E6145D60002020100
   027000D002F805000900010000004E4E
   4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E
   0000000000000000F5F5F5FE4F000102
   F74E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E4E
   4E4E4E4E4E4E4E000000000000000000
   000000E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5
   E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5

                  *
        Continue  |   with E5
                  *

F0 E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5E5A0AC


Is this what a normal boot sector should look like?  This disk
will no-longer boot.  From running Simon Poole's DL II utility,
the directory is BAD on this disk.  I have a few other disks with
identical boot sectors, but the directory is fine and the disk will
still boot.  Some of my other disks have TOTALLY different boot
sectors.  Anyone have any ideas?

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