jhartley@bbs.sbs.com (Joe Hartley) (02/12/91)
A friend of mine with a 1000 has had a strange thing come up that sure seems to be a virus. The system comes up with a box that floats across the screen with the word "Joshua" (a reference to the computer in WarGames??) in it. If he fires up VirusX, the system immediately comes up with a Software Error requestor. He intimated that this was also trashing his disks I have not yet gotten to his house to check out the offending disks with a sector editor or anything, so I have no further info as of yet. Any info on this can be posted here, or you may e-mail me at cadreri!jh@doorknob.cs.brown.edu PLEASE don't simply reply to this as I get mail at this login sporadically at best!! Thanx!
fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart) (02/12/91)
In article <ZRP8w1w163w@bbs.sbs.com> jhartley@bbs.sbs.com (Joe Hartley) writes: >A friend of mine with a 1000 has had a strange thing come up that sure seems >to be a virus. The system comes up with a box that floats across the screen >with the word "Joshua" (a reference to the computer in WarGames??) in it. ^^^^^^ I'm certainly no expert on virus's (Amiga or IBM), but I believe that there is an IBM virus called Joshua, though, if its able to make a box float across the screen on a Big-Blue machine, I'd consider it an improvement! ;-> Sorry I can't help more, --Frank fstuart@eng.auburn.edu