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From: Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ***HELP*** Floppy gone crazy!?!?!
Message-ID: <880801064254.135611@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
Date: 1 Aug 88 06:42:00 GMT
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I just decided that the floppy I use to store my word processor files
and some other misc.  things, probably had a lot of files I could get
rid of.  I decided to take a look at them and see which ones to throw
out.  I had never noticed anything strange about this disk before (the
only time I access the disk is from file selector boxes, and I always
know exactly what I want) so I really hadn't "looked" at the disk.
Well, I got the directory up and much to my surprise, there were many
groups of two files with exactly the same name.  I opened the files
(they were DOC files so I could view them on the desktop).  One of the
files had zero K and the other seemed ok.  I opened another file from
another group of two with the same names.  These files were both
garbage.  I opened all the files and many of them (not just ones that
had "copies") were garbage.  None of the information was recagnizable,
and the ones that shared the same names, sometimes had the same data,
and other times didn't.  One file (which had originally been a letter to
GFA) actually had a list of all of the files on the disk amoung a small
amount of garbage!  Most of the files were older and hadn't been
accessed for a while, and my new files (I had written some letters just
today) seemed untouched.  I decided (in a state of panic) that this must
be the work of a virus.  I quickly pulled out the VKILLER.PRG and
PENICLN.TTP.  First I checked the disk with VKILLER, then engaged
PENICLN.  Accourding to VKILLER the disk was fine.  I then did some file
copies to a ramdisk, and then a newly formatted disk and, well I did a
lot, but I think it should have taken care of the problem.



********Please if anyone has any info.  on what could have done this,
tell me, I am very scared!!!  :=( <---This is a crying sad face!


Thanks in advance


Aric Friesen

Addresses:  Genie:  A.FRIESEN ARPA:  Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA

"I'd rather face the Daleks then loose my files!"

                                        --Aric Friesen