pdccs@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick D. Champion) (01/18/90)
Hello. Does anyone know of a virus that deletes the root directory on drive C? I have run into this problem 3 times on so far - once on each of three PCs. I have run SIMTEL's scan42 and when I download scan52 will run that also. But they come up with no virus's. Also, the command.com hasn't grown, nor the to system files. Any ideas anyone? I could run a program to check for viruses writing to .EXE or .COM files, but my bosses don't look favourably on anything running on the PC's besides the software that we bought. Thanks for the help -- Patrick D. Champion My views are completely my own and Epidemiology Data Coordinating Center should not be construed as relating University of Pittsburgh in anyway to those for whom I work. pdccs@unix.cis.pitt.edu
cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) (01/22/90)
In article <21698@unix.cis.pitt.edu> pdccs@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick D. Champion) writes:
$ Any ideas anyone? I could run a program to check for viruses
$writing to .EXE or .COM files, but my bosses don't look favourably on anything
$running on the PC's besides the software that we bought.
Well, if your bosses have any brains in their heads, I'm sure that given the
choice between you running a harmless vaccine program than to have a harmful
virus running itself. That is, unless the data and programs on the computers
are meaningless to their business, which I rather doubt.
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Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
<std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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"I want to look at life - In the available light" - Neil Peartakcs.amparsonjr@vpnet.UUCP (Anthony M. Parson, Jr.) (02/01/90)
Instead of a virus, what about just a "nasty" practical joke, where: SCANVIR.BAT consists of cd\ del *.* When a user types SCANVIR, instead of running SCANVIR.COM or SCANVIR.EXE they will instead delete all root dir files. It could be a simple explana-