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From: bgsuvax!mckeeby@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jon Mckeeby)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Ping Pong Virus (PC)
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Date: 27 Feb 90 16:48:56 GMT
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An IMB PC with a hard disk in a lab of ours was infected with the Ping Pong
Virus. I know that the Ping Pong Virus is a boot infector virus so we removed
it by using the DOS SYS command.  However, I have other questions about the
virus.  If you have an answer please reply via the newsgroup or my mailing
address: mckeeby@andy.bgsu.edu.

          1.  How does the virus spread?
          2.  Are there available detection/protection programs
              to safeguard against new infections.  What are they?
          3.  How is the virus activated?
          4.  What does the virus do besides infect the boot sector?
          5.  Is the DOS SYS command the best way to remove the infection?
          6.  Are there public domain programs to remove an infection
              of the ping-pong / bouncing ball virus? What are they?
          7.  Is the ping-pong and the bouncing ball virus the same virus?
          8.  An infected user said they had the Brain virus on there disk
              and before using the infected ping-ponged hard disk it was
              clean.  Is there any correlation between these two viruses?
              I don't think so, but I want to make sure.

Thank you very much for your time,

Jon McKeeby
Graduate Assistant
Microcomputer / Microcomputer Virus Support
Bowling Green State University