jon@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) (05/18/89)
Hi Net,
We have just had an outbreak of nVIR (pretty funny for a Medical Research
Institute), and I had some observations and questions.
1) It only appeared to infect applications and system files (system,finder)
Is that all ?
2) What does it do ?
The first I noticed was that the Mac 'binged' at me on start-up. The
files appeared reasonably ok, even though there had been disks infected
for about a month.
Mail or post, I read both.
...aTdHvAaNnKcSe
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Jon Eaves Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research.
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prepare to die!" - The Princess Bride.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------jh@ist.CO.UK (Jeremy Huxtable) (03/29/90)
Sorry if this has been done to death but I can't find any references to the problem anywhere. A "friend" has a Mac Plus with system 6.0.2 infected with nVIR and I want to find out how to remove it. Using VirusDetective or ResEdit to just remove the resources results in the infected application or System becoming unusable - is there any cure apart from just rebuilding from backups? I seem to remember seeing a posting some time ago which summarised all the known viruses and their effects - could someone mail this to me if they have it please. Thanks, Jeremy Huxtable.