csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank Doss) (06/04/91)
One of our users here at Eastern Illinois has discovered the Hong Kong virus on the distribution disks included with Micro Tough's TVGA board. This board is a MS-Windows enhancer Trident chip graphics board. The disk are labeled TVGA-8916 (disks one - three). All three of the notchless disks had the virus. As the disks were the notchless type, the virus came from either the factory or the duplicating company. Micro Tough has been notified. Norton Anti-Virus 1.00 did NOT find the virus, but Central Point Anti-Virus 1.00 found and purged the virus. To say the least, our user was most discerned with his factory-bought virus. ;-) This has been a warning . . . Frank E. Doss Academic Computing Eastern Illinois University
mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates) (06/05/91)
csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank Doss) writes: >One of our users here at Eastern Illinois has discovered the Hong Kong >virus on the distribution disks included with Micro Tough's TVGA [some stuff deleted here] >Norton Anti-Virus 1.00 did NOT find the virus, but Central Point >Anti-Virus 1.00 found and purged the virus. What Central Point Anti Virus identifies as the Hong Kong virus is also known as the Azusa virus. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky McAfee Associates Technical Support - -- McAfee Associates | Voice (408) 988-3832 | mcafee@netcom.com 4423 Cheeney Street | FAX (408) 970-9727 | (Aryeh Goretsky) Santa Clara, California | BBS (408) 988-4004 | 95054-0253 USA | v.32 (408) 988-5190 | mrs@netcom.com ViruScan/CleanUp/VShield | HST (408) 988-5138 | (Morgan Schweers)
dwe29248@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek William Ebdon) (06/11/91)
One thing that Mr. Doss forgot to mention is that although Central Point Anti-Virus v1.0 can easily romove the Asuza virus from a floppy, it cannot remove the virus from a hard drive. The only way to disinfect a hard drive is to redo the low level format because the virus infects the boot sector and the dos partition. A high level format will not remove the virus, nor will simply removing the dos partition with the fdisk program. Derek Ebdon
csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank Doss) (06/13/91)
dwe29248@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek William Ebdon) writes: >One thing that Mr. Doss forgot to mention is that although Central > . . . >it cannot remove the virus from a hard drive. The only way to >disinfect a hard drive is to redo the low level format because the For those of you with IDE hard drives, contact Seagate. They are selling Disk Manager (version 4.1 or later is needed) for $6.00. This version of Disk Manager will format the boot sector, partition table, and the data sections of the disk, but not the error table. You might want to ask Seagate and your vendors for details. I am not endorsing Disk Manager, but merely reporting what Mr. Ebdon has reported as what worked for him. Thanks, Derek, for the reminder. I hope your machine is working much better now. ;-) Frank E. Doss Eastern Illinois University