RE: virus on v-day

Collin McClendon (collin.mcclendon@yale.edu)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:30:55 -0500

I don't think I've been exchanging many files, this is the only virus I have
ever had and man was it nasty. My only saving grace was a 4 cd backup.
Backup often. Its harder to backup linux though with its multiple
partitions etc, and I don't have a tape drive. I should just put linux on a
separate harddrive. I wonder why no one on the net talked about a
valentine's day virus? Maybe I was just the lucky one:). Oh BTW it did warn
me, norton 5 did, saying my mbr had changed but I chose to innoculate the
mbr not restore it, how stupid of me.

-----Original Message-----
From: min-ken.lai@yale.edu [mailto:min-ken.lai@yale.edu]On Behalf Of Ken
Lai
Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:47 PM
To: Collin McClendon
Subject: Re: virus on v-day

When you turn it off, it was still ok?
When you turned it back on, the partition table was dead?
It does look like a partition sector virus...
I feel for you man.

It's kinda like STD, so you should warn people you've transferred files
with recently... but of course, if we'd stayed under linux, no virus
could do very much damage.

Collin McClendon wrote:
>
> Now this may seem wierd but its true. I stayed up until the early morning
on
> sunday (14th)
> and then turned off my computer and went to breakfast when I came back the
> whole harddrive was gone, I checked some more and found random impossibly
> sized partitions had been created, I suspect a virus, why did I have boot
> windows ? arrg! I had backed up windows onto 4 cd's but alas linux is
> completely gone, 4 months of work. What a tragedy.

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