Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: mcvax!kannel.lut.fi!huopio@uunet.UU.NET (Kauto Huopio) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Is this a virus ? Message-ID: <0013.8909251241.AA29279@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:54:15 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 33 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu 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.. ****************** Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi) ********************** *US Mail: Kauto Huopio, Punkkerikatu 1 A 10, SF-53850 Lappeenranta, Finland * *Project: Learn some GNU Emacs first.. :-) * *****************************************************************************