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echo: virus_info
to: CHRIS EVANS
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-07-20 12:36:00
subject: Virus wipes root C files

On (18 Jul 97) Chris Evans wrote to All...
 CE> Does anyone know whether this sounds like a known virus? ... last 
Thursday
 CE> all 
 CE> the files in root C (not in dir's) were wiped, and this Thursday my 
config
 CE> and 
 CE> autoexec files, including .bak ones, were wiped.  My computer shop 
hasn't 
 CE> heard of such a virus, and suspects human error such as "sticky finger".
 CE> I have McAfee running under WIN 95 which detects nothing.
Download the latest update for McAfee and one of the other trail 
packages from: F-prot, Dr. Sol, or TBAV.  If McAfee is missing the 
virus, one of the others my not miss the same virus.
Gordon
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