cosc75a@uhnix1.uh.edu (Parameshwaran Krishnan) (09/29/89)
Hi, I am working in the College Of Business Admn, of the Univ of Houston. And I am in the RICS Deptt. I manage Novell Networks there. Today there was a report of a virus in a floppy disk. I am listing down its features any body who would have seen it before please inform me 1. how destructive it can be . 2. How can it be disinfected. Features : 1. It seemingly attaches to an exe file. When u try to execute the file it says that the very same file was not found (??). and asks for a path (in this specific instance it was a Wordperfect file. If u executed wp, it said wp.exe not found Please give a path likd c:\wp\wp.exe. I have a feeling that it does this to infect the harddisk too). If the path is given then it goes bonkers. 2. In this case it created a hidden file called Wordperf.cet. It also screws some exe files on the hard disk It took up 660Bytes extra and wrote the wp.exe back again on the disk. I think this might be the virus code. If u want any other feedback please e-mail me and i will send it to u. Thanks in advance, P Krishnan (cosc75a@uhnix1.uh.edu) (create a virus free computer world)