MATHRICH@UMCVMB (Rich Winkel UMC Math Department) (06/09/89)
> Another wierdness (or maybe not). If you are (BY THE WAY, WE >ARE TALKING ABOUT IBM CLONES) booting up from a bootable diskette (not a >full DOS disk) with no config.sys file, does it get the files and buffers >limits from the dos disk that originally made the bootable disk? It >must, obviously. Where does it keep this stuff? No, it just uses default values hardcoded in dos. The default for buffers is 2 for a PC, 3 for an AT. The default for files is 8. Rich
wb@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (werner.baumgartner) (02/28/90)
I recently down-loaded a file from a local BBS called MEGASPUP.ZIP which is flagged by SCAN58 as containing 2 viruses, 1701/1704 Ver B and Vacsina. This program is supposed to decrease disk access time, according to the documentation. Does anyone have any information about this file, such as its origin etc. Also, now what do I do with it, should I send it somewhere to be analysed ?
YOOPER@MSU.BITNET (Carl_A.Fassbender) (03/17/90)
One of the public computer labs here is having trouble with it's system disks. For some reason, space on these disks is lost. There are no other files added to the disks and the file sizes of the orginal files have not changed. Could something be changing the number of free blocks without actually allocating them? The files that are on the system disk are: System 6.0.4 LaserWriter Finder Monitors Gatekeeper Aid 1.0.1 Sound Gatekeeper 1.1.1 StartupScreen Clipboard File Color General ImageWriter Key Layout Keyboard LaserPrep We have Gatekeeper set so that it does not use the log feature. Carl Fassbender Michigan State University
IBNG300@INDYVAX.BITNET (SEAN KRULEWITCH) (06/06/90)
To Who it may concern:
I am fairly new to the whole idea of viruses and the like. I recently
purchased an IBM clone (AMI motherboard 386-20) and have experienced a
few unusual things. Files seem to be vanishing off the disk, and
other programs are acting weird. For example when I run Windows386 I
get a KERNSTUB error during boot, and I am sent back to the dos
prompt. When I try again, I get an incorrect Dos version error. If I
then proceed to type ver it says Dos 3.41. However I am running Dos
4.01. If i type ver a few more times it continues to say dos 3.41.
After the third or fourth time it goes back to saying Dos 4.01. Also
Procomm locks up when I try to enter the setup mode (ALT-S) and I am
forced to turn the machine off (Warm boot doesn't work). After a
while the whole system seems to slow down considerably. One symptom
that seems to be common is a small section of the lower left hand side
of the screen seems to shift up, leaving a small "hole". This happens
in various programs and at the dos prompt. I thought it may be a
problem with my video card, but the card checks out ok. Certain
programs that worked before no longer work. If anyone knows what this
may be, please contact me. I can be reached at the following
addresses:
KRULEWIT@IUBACS.BITNET or
IBNG300@INDYVAX.BITNET
Sincerely,
Sean V. KrulewitchCHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M.Chess) (06/06/90)
SEAN KRULEWITCH <IBNG300@INDYVAX.BITNET>: > One symptom > that seems to be common is a small section of the lower left hand side > of the screen seems to shift up, leaving a small "hole". That's a common symptom of the 1813 (or "Jerusalem") virus, one of the most common PC-DOS viruses. Have you used a virus-scanner on your system? If you *do* have an 1813 infection, the other symptoms that you're seeing are probably due to various bugs in the virus and/or "incompatibilities" between the virus and your various programs... DC