REEVES-T@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (teTRis Addict) (03/15/90)
If you everything you said is correct I don't think you have any virus. If you booted from a CLEAN flopy after power had been OFF, no virus can be active in the system. Note there are two conditions to above. I guess if you had some unusual hardware - like battery powered ram, you might have a virsu - but you would have failed the second condition. Of course as youy mentioned there is a small amount of battery powered memeory - for clock and setup parameters. However any virus code inserted there could only be active if read and executed by a disk based program. It can't "jump out" on it own - DOS will never read and execute that data. It is very possible you have a hardware failure - possibly in the disk controller, - or even in screnn ram, or video cricuits - after all what we see on a disk or in ram all depends on the video working correctly! An unstaed assumption is that after you boot from clean floppy you do NOT execute any program on hard drive or floppy of uncertain status. I suggest you FTP to WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL or other virus archive site and obtain SCANV59. Use it to check your floppies. I alos suggest you seek local help from somebody if at all possible. Reeves-t@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu