On (31 May 97) MICHAEL PERRY wrote to rod fewster...
 MP>    Hi,
 MP>  I believe that there is a virus on my sons computer. At times a
 MP> message appears on the screen about wanting some milk for his cereal.
 MP> At other
 MP> times, there is a bunch of white spots that fly across the screen like
 MP> a screen blanker. All of the com, and exe files require more, and more
 MP> time to load, until a reboot. Then the first time that they are loaded
 MP> after a reboot, they seem to be normal. I tried to chnage the attrib
 MP> to read only, for all of the exe, and com files, but it won't let me
 MP> do it. When I boot with a write protected disk, any files of that disk
 MP> continue to work fine, but the files on the hard drive will act up
 MP> after running any of them
 MP> once. We tried McGaffy's (sp) virus scanner, and tbav, and had no
 MP> luck. I have a feeling that it somehow got into the cmos registers,
 MP> rom bios, or something like that. We need help! Do you, or anyone else
 MP> have any ideas? Thanks for any help.
 MP>                        MIKE............
One question, did you run the virus scan after you did a cold boot 
with a clean writprotected dos disk?  The scaners will not find 
the virus if the virus is active in memory.
To check for a virus:
1.  Cold boot with a clean write-protected dos floppy
2.  Install from floppy to harddrive the anti-virus program with 
out using any program from the hard drive.  the files on the 
harddrive are infected and will put the virus back in ram.....?
3.  Run the anti-virus program.
The virus should be found and cleaned from the computer.  It 
sounds like a very bad infection and it may be easier just to 
back up your data and format and reinstall your programs, using a 
anti-virus program to scan all floppies be for reinstalling.
Gordon
... Teenagers are God's punishment for enjoying sex!
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