[comp.virus] Warning New Virus

IA96@PACE.BITNET (IA96000) (06/09/89)

Just thought you all might like to know the following:

There is a new virus floating around, which attacks WP.EXE in
particular and almost every other .EXE file it comes in contact
with. It is self propogating and trashes files and disks.

Some of the things to look for are as follows:

1) Strange blue/green blocks appear on the screen.
2) Running a .EXE you know is on the disk and getting a
   "File not found" error even though the .EXE is on the disk.
3) After 30 to 45 minutes everything seems to slow down. Doing
   a DIR takes 30 or 40 seconds for each line to appear.
4) It definitely spreads between .EXE files, although it
   appears .COM files are immune.
5) It will spread to all types (sizes) of floppy disk drives
   and will jump to a hard drive.
More later...