S46@DHDURZ1.BITNET (GUNNAR RADONS) (06/01/90)
hi pple,
It looks as if we have been hit by a virus. As far as I could find out
from the people which reported the problems to me, the normal behaviour
seems to hinder programs from running properly. Programs who ran fine
before suddenly don't find subroutines or other things, but will run ok
after they've been restarted.
Also the virus once showed the contents of the disk directory as a sub-
directories which repeated on and on. A later look did not show any
subdir. Also checking after rebooting didn't show any additional subdirs
The same problems where reported from another institute here a few weeks
ago. It might be that the virus hooks itself into some free space of the
command.com, but this is a pure guess right now.
If this sounds familiar to you and if you now a way to find the virus
to cure the programs, please let me know.
Send your comments to s46 at dhdurz1 please.
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Bye, Gunnar Radons