AGUTOWS@WAYNEST1.BITNET (Arthur Gutowski) (12/19/89)
Someone here at Wayne State just sent me a note about some strange
symptoms he's been having. Can anyone out there verify if this is
indeed a virus, and if so which one? Here's the info I have
(emphasis mine):
"Here's what I know. I *believe* that a disgruntled staff member *may*
have put the virus into my computer directly since the same problem
occurred six months ago to another administrator in the library. He
had a student computer expert solve the problem, but this student is
no longer with us.
"I have an IBM XT with 640 and a 20meg hard drive. I've had SCANRES
(Ed.v39) on the system since October 11. The infection got in since
then. SCANRES says that the system is clean. I examined the AUTOEXEC
and CONFIG.SYS files. They look clean to me. Problems so far include:
WordPerfect 4.2: The cursor keys add extra random characters such as a
'z' or 'k'. I also got the message 'ARSOLE' and the system then locked
up from another cursor key sequence. DESKTOP in PCTOOLS. The
calculator locked up. I had to do a cold reboot.
"I replaced my base files with the SYS command on Friday and haven't
noticed any problems yet, but the problems that I described above are
extremely intermittent."
Please reply to me, and I'll post a follow-up later.
Thanks,
Art
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