SCHANG@ADMIN.ripon.edu (SCHANG@ADMIN.RIPON.EDU) (09/12/90)
Recently a student brought to me a Mac SE which is corrupting disks which he uses with his internal hard drive. After about 3 uses with a floppy disk in the internal drive, the disk becomes unreadable. At first, I thought it was a hardware problem. I ran Disinfectant 2.1 on the hard disk to check for any viruses and it reported none. However, SUM-DiskClinic reported that the system folder contained a virus. The student at one time had had his hard disk infected by the nVIR virus, but he removed it with Disinfectant. He also told me that once when he tried to open a document in Word 4.0, the program would not load the entire file and gave a message which said that the program could not be loaded because Word was having "serious problems." I still think it might simply be a hardware problem, but the other circumstances make me think it is possible that there is virus present. If anyone can offer any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Jeff Schang Ripon College SCHANG@ADMIN.RIPON.EDU