rjb@bpa.BELL-ATL.COM (Ray Benash) (05/24/90)
Recent posts tell me that a WDEF virus was discussed exhaustively in this newsgroup some time ago. I wouldn't want to start another deluge on the topic, but could someone possibly email me a synopsis of the posts, or just a short description on what kinds of problems this virus caused? A friend of mine purchased a MAC se-30 about 9 months ago. Last week she could not access her hard drive. She took the system in for repair, the repair folks said the drive "was really messed up" and replaced it for $600. She got the system back, started to load up the hard drive, added Sum2 sofware and immediately got a virus alert. The only applications other that MAC standard code that came with the system was McWorks, Word Perfect, a game called Math Rabbit, and a childrens publisher called "Once Upon a Time". All software was bought from the dealer or Egghead Software. She bought SAM software and found the WDEF virus has infected half of your disks. Could it be possible that the virus caused the problem with the drive mentioned above? If so what could it have done? Ray Benash