frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (10/24/89)
Well - now I know of one victim of the Datacrime-II virus .....
myself. :-(
Last Tuesday I was demonstrating how any known virus could be stopped
with my anti-virus program. Unfortunately I had forgotten that it was
not installed at the time :-(
So, when I ran a program infected with DataCrime-II, I just got the
message
DATACRIME II
Bye bye hard disk......
I turned the computer off, but when I turned it on again the computer
would of course not boot from the hard disk, but instead jumped into
BASIC.
When I booted from a diskette, the computer would not even admit that
drive C: existed.
It sounds bad, but this took only a few minutes to fix, simply by...
... formatting track 0 with correct parameters
... running NDD
and everything was back to normal again.
phew !
-- frisk
[Ed. NDD = Norton Disk Doctor, right?]