On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:27:08 -0500, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> I just popped the top off of my XT, since I hadn't looked at it for
> awhile. I am thinking that I might sell it. I noticed that I had a
> floppy(360K) in the disk drive. I decided to see what was on it. I
> have a 360K floppy drive on my Socket 7 system, so I used that, since I
> hadn't gotten a monitor, keyboard, and cables out for the XT.
> I have InoculateIT running, and it found the Michalangelo virus on the
> floppy. Wow, I never thought I would get a virus on any of my 360K
> floppies! I guess now, I'll have to check them all. I'll even have to
> check some of my new ones, since I have used a few, and then put them
> back in the box :-(
> I assume that the HD on the XT is infected. Anybody know an anti-virus
> program that I can tun from a 360K floppy? I don't know if I could
> check for virus' over an intersvr/interlnk connection. The only other
> way to get rid of it, that I can think of, would be to do a low-level
> format, but I am unsure if I will be able to pull that off.
Many distributions of DR-DOS 4 showed up as "having Michaelangelo
virus". That may be accurate, or it may be that something in the boot
sector just has a similar signature. If I'm not mistaken, The McAfee
downloaded from Simtel can be made to just barely fit on a bootable
"real" floppy if _only_ disk scan is to be used.
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
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