wb69@tygra.UUCP (Alan Beck) (04/08/90)
We've got a problem with a bunch of Mac SE, and SE 30. We have gotten a virus into them somehow. I have no idea how this could have happened, since they are not networked together (other than Appletalk), and we know 99.99995 of our software is store boughten, right off the shelves. I'm not that familiar with Mac viruses, but here are the symptoms: - --It just eats up space, and makes everythink larger. It sort of became evident when our 20 meg hd was 27 megs... - --It may or may not copy itself onto floppy disks that are put into the system. - --It seems to have been gotten rid of, and then it comes back. - --When we find the virus on the SE (These d - --When we find the virus on the SE (These don't have hds) we seem to get rid of it. - --The SE/30 (with hd) seems to always have it. - --The plain SE gets it from when a disk was carried from the SE/30 to the reg. SE. So, I know where it's coming from. - --It hasn't done anything drastic, YET!!! Can you please tell me what this Virus is, and how to stop it??? We try to use the SE/30 as least as possible, so it's down 75% of the time, so I think the virus can be left alone untill we get some antidotes here. We have tried one (a store one, can't remember the name), that doesn't seem to help it. I really need some suggestions... Here comes the screwy .sig file (I have no controll over it)..... = CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Prototype Computer Conferencing System = - - 1-800-825-3069, 300/1200/2400/9600 baud, 8/N/1. New users use 'new' - = as a login id. <<Redistribution to GEnie PROHIBITED!!!>>> = E-MAIL Address: wb69@ThunderCat.COM
cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) (12/08/90)
We're having a very weird problem here at the office... Our keyboards keep going into 'Warp Mode', meaning that the key repeat rate keeps going VERY VERY high...you hold down a key for half a second and the result is many many consecutive keyclicks. Normally a reboot will cure this for a while at least. We're using 386 clones with hard drives, both two different types of computers...I'm using an HP Vectra. At first I thought that maybe it was something we are both using causing this problem...but the only things we use commonly are Turbo C++ and maybe one or two common utilities. Could a virus be causing this? Does this symptom sound familiar? - -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=That is not dead which may eternal lie-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Christoper Roth * "Machines have no * InterNet : cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu * Conscience..." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Yet with strange eons even death may die-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=