[comp.virus] More on October 13 virus

hartmut@jane.RUC.dk (Hartmut Haberland,03.1.5) (09/19/89)

Danish TV (Channel 2) had a brief report on the October 13 virus in
the evening news yesterday. It has obviously emerged at the Danish
Post Giro office in Copenhagen and created a lot of panic. The report
was the usual sort of journalists' blather, basically implying that
Viruses are God's punishment for pirate copying. Still, one gets
nervous. I'll take a backup of all harddisks here at Roskilde
University just before the date (something one should do anyway ...),
I mean in our department, but what else can one do? Please advise (I'm
following the newsletter, of course) ...

Hartmut Haberland
hartmut@jane.ruc.dk          or          RUCHH@NEUVM1 (on what some people
                     call Because It's There NET)

davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (09/20/89)

If you have a program to backup just the FAT it may be effective with
this virus. Not that I would neglect backing up the whole disk... but if
you have a FAT cache program you might save a lot of time just restoring
that.

bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon