IA96@PACE.BITNET (IA96000) (11/28/89)
We recently ran into a problem. A user reported that a hard disk drive in daily use, had only one file on it. The file was named tracebck.com or another spelling of the virus name. The disk label was @traceback and as mentioned all files were deleted except the one file mentioned. SCAN.EXE identified the Traceback virus as being present in the file. Anyone recognize this? Unfortunately the user INSISTED that a low level format be done on the disk, and could not wait for someone with some knowledge to get there. The technician did a screen dump of the SCAN.EXE report and then formatted the disk. Does this sound familiar to anyone? If so, does the low level format get rid of the virus? The files were restored from master disks and as far as we know, the master are not infected.