rmartin@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Martin) (04/23/91)
The Azusa virus has appeared at DTRC. While checking software for viruses, I found the Azusa virus on several diskettes belonging to a systems I was checking out. Upon further investigation, I made a startling discovery. The Azusa virus was found on one of the VGA utilities disks. This disk was a 5 1/4 1.2mb HD floppy and was factory read only (no notch). The virus was on disk one of a three disk set. The disks were labeled TVGA - 8916. According to the manual, TVGA is a trademark of "Trident Microsystems, Inc. I notified our supplier of this finding and had them check their remaining supply of TVGA software and they verified that ALL of their disk one of three TVGA - 8916 utilities disks were infected with the Azusa virus. This supplier told me that at least 10,000 TVGA units per week are being distributed worldwide by many suppliers. I would suggest that if you have these drivers, they should not be used until verified to be virus-free. Good Luck ....... Bob
padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) (04/24/91)
>From: rmartin@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Martin) >This disk was a 5 1/4 1.2mb HD floppy and was factory read only (no >notch). The virus was on disk one of a three disk set. >The disks were labeled TVGA - 8916. According to the manual, TVGA is >a trademark of "Trident Microsystems, Inc. Bring in the lawyers ! We need some civil actions to force manufacturers to take due care (I'm amazed it hasn't happened before). Warmly, Padgett