ELINZE@YALEVM.BITNET (Naama Zahavi-Ely) (12/02/89)
Hello! The Yale/Alameda virus is essentially harmless. The message you report was not present in the version of the virus that I am familiar with; are you sure it comes from the virus and not from some line in the autoexec.bat file? If it does come from the virus, then you are dealing with a different version than the one I know and you should take my information with a grain of salt. The Yale virus that I know is a boot sector virus. It is easy to get rid of -- boot the computer from a clean, write-protected floppy and give the command SYS x:, with x: being the drive holding the infected disk. The Yale virus that I know does not infect hard disks. I hope this helps! Best wishes, - -Naama