MCOOMBS@STEVENS.BITNET (Meredith Coombs) (06/26/90)
We've come across a virus-like problem which seems to primarily affect floppy disks. It shows up when you try to format a floppy and get an error message that says the boot sector is bad. Attempting to use the FORMAT command on a pc's hard disk when the system has the "virus" results in an error message. (You can do an FDISK -- from a floppy -- of the hard disk.) One way the "virus" makes itself known is by creating a file named delta-character4EIBM.n.n or delta-char<EIBM.n.n (where n.n stands for the DOS version with which the diskette was formatted. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has information on cause and cure for this virus. (Our virus detecting software, SCAN v6.3 from McAfee) can't spot it at all.) Meredith Coombs Manager of User Services Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030