Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com (08/01/90)
This is a forward from Aryeh Goretsky of the Computer Virus Industry Association: ================================================================ Note: Contact information from the following CVIA Membership Alert has been removed from the posting, but has been submitted separately to the Virus-L moderator. July 31, 1990 CVIA Membership Alert Originating Member: [Information Removed] Alert Type: Initial Infection Spread Library Entry: Joshi-B Entry Type: Boot Sector & Partition Table / "Stealth" Virus The Joshi virus has been reported and verified on July 30 on a number of workstations in a local area network in North Carolina, marking the first incident of the virus reported to the CVIA in the South-Central U.S. A variant of Joshi was also reported and verified on July 31 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It has been named the Joshi-B. This variant causes destruction of the Partition Record and boot sector of hard disks, as well as the virus' normal interference with floppy diskette use. The virus is a "stealth" Boot sector and Partition Table virus and thus is very difficult to identify on an already infected system. It is becoming widely dispersed in the U.S. and is likely to become one of the more common viruses, based on its past performance and speed of replication. A remover for the virus is available through your CVIA contact person. John McAfee