CA6692@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Vince Laurent - work id) (11/10/89)
We have encountered something that appears to be a virus of some sort.
The symptoms are :
1. When an EXE file is run that is 'infected' the screen gets lines
and garbage that looks like 'snow' (TV term there...)
2. After a few runs it changes the file length to 0.
3. When the disk is checked using some utilites there are numerous
'bad sectors' scattered on the disk.
Side Note: The color of the 'snow' is the same as the last application that
ran (ie when Norton Editor is run with a green screen - there is
green snow, white screen editing makes white snow, etc...)
I have not been able to 'capture' this virus to get a look at the code. I
know of 3 cases so far, some of my coworkers have run across it too.
Any ideas on what it might be?
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| Vincent J. Laurent |
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| Southern Illinois University - Carbondale |
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p.s. please! no comments about yellow snow...