ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) (04/13/91)
We are investigating a possible minor infection by a virus which
infects the master boot partition record of IBM compatibles and which
can be identified by the letters SCUD appearing in its body.
At present we know very little about it other than the fact that it
appears to corrupt the hard disk and may also (in another
incarnation?) corrupt the CMOS, specifically be changing the floppy
disk type configuration.
We are still at a very early stage of the investigation, i.e. we
haven't separated the facts from the misinformation yet, so I
apologize for the vagueness.
If anyone has any knowledge of such a virus, I'd appreciate it if they
got in touch with me ASAP.
Thanks, I'll post the eventual outcome.
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