CVITEK@drew.bitnet (Bart Simpson) (10/23/90)
REcently I heard of a virus that was being spread around Oak Ridge, TN. From what I understand, it completely erases your hard drive and then reformats it (pretty nasty!). Does anyone know anything about this particular virus (ie what it is called, where it originated, etc), or is this a rather common virus effect and hard to pinpoint which virus causes it? Thank you. Chris "V" Vitek
RZOTTO@DKNKURZ1.BITNET (Otto.Stolz) (11/05/90)
> ... it completely erases your hard drive and then reformats it > ... or is this a rather common virus effect Indeed! It is most destructive and pretty easy to program, hence it this sort of damage is one of the favourites of virus writers. As examples, I've send you the following memo files (most of them containing descriptions of several variants): DATACRIM PCMEMO (both variants) DENZUG PCMEMO (cf. variant SYS-B) MERRITT PCMEMO (cf. ALAMEDA & GOLDEN GATE) VIENNA PCMEMO (several variants render arbitrary program into low-level hard-disk formatter) 12-TRICK PCMEMO Try to identify the beast you are hosting according to the "easy identification" sections in some of the descriptions, or use virus scan programs (e.g. McAfee's SCAN, or Frisk's F-DISINF and F-FCHK from the F-PROT package). Good luck Otto Stolz