🚀 go-pugleaf

This may not be the best area for this message, but the BBS I'm using
doesn't carry any Virus Areas, besides this has a lot to do with Misc DOS

My cousin's computer in Iowa has justed been stoned!!!  He called me a
couple 
of nights ago requesting help.  He is getting the "Your Computer has been 
Stoned" message on occasion, and Windows is detecting a possible virus
since 
it can't run in 32 bit enhanced mode because something else -- the virus --

is taking up a certain memory location.  
 
Get this!!!  He got the virus from Target, as far as we can tell that is. 
He 
recently bought California Games put out by a company called EPYX (I would 
like to get a hold of this company, but they didn't give their adderess)
    Why do we think it was from the game's disk?
       1. The program won't work to start with
       2. He didn't start getting the virus until after he accidently
          re-booted with that disk in the drive, causing the Non-system
disk
          error, this method is a popular virus transporter
 
We have discovered that his IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files had been modified!!!
Comparing with those on a start-up disk, we found the bytes to be the same 
but the time and date were different.  Since the system works fine when 
booted from floppy and still using the hard drive to load all other device 
drivers, we assumme that the virus has only affected the hard drives boot 
sector and/or files.  I instructed him to try to replace the modified SYS 
files with those from the floppy, but I haven't heard from him yet to know
if that worked.
 
I am sending him McAfee's Virus Scanner and Clean-Up program to check his 
files and make sure the system is clean, and to check to see if the virus 
really did come from the California Games disk.  Hopeful he can keep his 
data safe.
 
I once again would like help tracking down the company EPYX which puts the 
game out.  The package was shrink wraped at time of purchase, so unless
Target re-wrapped it, is would have to have come from EPYX.  

What other advice shoud I give him, what DOS methods are able to fix the
problem other than re-formatting and installing everything over again?

                          Please E-Mail me if you have any advice
                          My adderess is Michel_Gerber@bearsden.UUCP

                          Thanks a lot,  Mike

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