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From: mcvax!kannel.lut.fi!huopio@uunet.UU.NET (Kauto Huopio)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Is this a virus ?
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:54:15 GMT
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My Taiwanese-origin Comper AT ( a 12 MHz-machine with 1 meg of RAM)
ran into trouble last night. My friend was playing Tetris (the
original version), and after that I begun to test WordPerfect 4.2. I
looked to some directories and there was some *VERY* odd characters in
the directory listings, blinking high intensity white. Quite often
there was a "smiley face"-character, also blinking high intensity
white. Also, there was some ODD characters just at the beginning of
the next line after the command prompt, when giving a DOS command.
When I edited a small text with WP and tried to save it..the hard disk
light just stayed on and.. I think you can guess the rest. I booted my
AT with a floppy disk and ran DIAGS. To my suprise, the hard disk came
back! This morning I put up the system, and it worked for a couple of
minutes, but died again (Sector not found error on drive C: )

I am running DOS 3.30. Now, I have some questions:

1) What is the right size of DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM ?

2) Should I do a low-level format with Ontrack Disk Manager 3.2 and try to
   do a clean system.

3) If this is caused by a virus, what is the bogus program ??

All help is welcome!!

- --Kauto

PS: Sorry about my poor English..

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