On (25 Jan 97) Nathan Rossin wrote to All...
 NR> I posted a message a while ago asking for help on ridding myself of
 NR> the CALLFAST.COM virus ( actually a trojan ) from my XT.  I still
 NR> haven't firgured it out.  Here's my system:
 NR>         IBM XT
 NR>         20 meg hard drive
 NR>         Microsoft DOS 3.30
 NR>         5¬ and 3« inch LD drives
 NR> I have tried FDISK and FORMAT ( with unplugging my system ).  I've
 NR> been told that this virii writes itself into the BOOT sector.  How do
 NR> I clean that?  I don't have a clean virus scanner, though.
 NR> PLEASE help me with this.  I've had this virus for over 2 years now.
Well get a freind or get you ORIGINAL ms dos disks, if you have 
always had them write protected they should be clean.  Boot form 
the clean DOS disk after powering down(turn of the computer), and 
then get a anti-virus scanner and scan your system, most all 
scanners should clean the virus off your system.  Also after the 
system is cleaned your must scan each of your floppies to get the 
virus off the boot sectors, or you will just become reinfected 
form one of your floppies!
NOW if it is a torjen, it is not a virus just delete the file and 
the torjen is gone.
Gordon
... Authority and Responsibility should NEVER be separated!
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