Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!megatek!eta!hollen From: hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ->NEW VIRUS AND CURE<- for ALL IBM PC/XT/AT/386 type systems Message-ID: <537@megatek.UUCP> Date: 8 May 89 18:40:55 GMT References: <294@evecs.UUCP> Sender: news@megatek.UUCP Distribution: usa Lines: 20 From article <294@evecs.UUCP>, by root@evecs.UUCP (- Admin): > I do not know if this is realy a NEW virus, but this campus > is now in the middle of a large infection. > > The virus is not destructive UNLESS the disk it is trying to infect > is full (it needs one cluster -- 1024 bytes) > > HERE IS WHAT IT DOES: > At some time a single character will start bouncing around the screen > but you can still continue to do what ever you want. > Thanks for the info, but does anyone know how this virus originally was spread? Dion Hollenbeck (619) 455-5590 x2814 Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121 seismo!s3sun!megatek!hollen ames!scubed/