[comp.virus] IBM PC virus found?

berman-andrew@CS.Yale.EDU (Andrew Berman) (08/15/89)

Hi.  I don't have much familiarity with viruses, but:

	A good friend has been working for a few months on some IBM PC's.
In the last several weeks, all her programs were screwing up.  We ran her
stuff and noticed that each time an executable was ran, it's size increased
by 1808 bytes.  This included some system files such as 'SORT'.  She had
been using a bunch of disks, including some disks from Israel.  So far,
it just seems that it was loading up the disks.  Anyway, if anyone has
any information about this virus, we'd be very interested.  She proceeded
to copy all her source files onto clean, formatted disks.  Is that
sufficient, assuming she zaps everything else?
	Thanks,

	Andrew P. Berman