CANDIE@PACEVM.BITNET (Jenny Wirtschafter) (06/02/89)
Hi-
Recently we began noticing a problem on some of our software,
specifically WordPerfect. On all of our WordPerfect disks we get the
error can not find correct copy of WP.EXE. If an infected disk is
used on a machine without rebooting it infects all disks used
subsequently. The disks are infected immediatly, there is no latency
period. Another symptom we have noticed is the monitor will display
snow and start scrolling/clearing the screen at random intervals.
When infected disks are reformatted they have numerous bad sectors.
We are worried that the virus might be infecting all of our disks. It
might be surfacing on the Wordperfect disk, because they must be used
without a write protect tab. Or possibly the sectors which the virus
first infects are necessary to WordPerfect performing correctly. Has
anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone have any ideas on
how we should proceed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jenny Wirtschafter
Academic Computing