[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Is this a virus???

mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer) (04/07/91)

I have the following setup (roughly)

486-25 AMI - 12MB
760MB Maxtor ESDI HDD
8514/A + Tseng4000 VGA

As I have been working over the past few days, Window's 3.0 WRITE and
AmiPRO suddenly crashed. Other things have been working fine.

On my 286-AT similar problems occured. I am using SuperPrint on both
machines.

I have heard some that boot-sector viruses can scramble or cross-link
files, which would explain the strange crashes.

I did (about 2 weeks ago) install a boot selector program for Unix. It
basically lets me choose if I want to boot Unix or DOS.

Does anyone have any comments? What virus detection/disinfection
programs could I try?

	thanks very much,
	...Martin


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Martin Schedlbauer				(mschedlb@ulowell.edu)
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854		(Tel: (508) 934-3612)