Is this a virus???

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From: Robert M. McGee
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 04:27

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I had a strange event occur with my pc the other day. I do not know if
it has anything to do with a virus, so I'm asking if anyone knows of a
virus with these characteristics.  Here's what happened:

I exited Procomm and got a error reading drive c: message.
Then I pressed the reset button and after all the ROM diagnostics had
completed I got a disk boot failure error.

The next thing I did was to boot off a floppy and run Nortons disk
test program which told me I had dozens of cluster read errors that
were unmarked and could be used or were already being used by files.

I turned the power off to the machine for about 20 sec. And it booted
normally when powered up.
I ran the Norton program again and got no errors.  I also ran a
(older version) virus check on all the drives and found nothing.

I haven't had any problems since.  Wierd.

mcgee@cse.uta.edu


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From: mcgee@cse.uta.edu (Robert M. McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Is this a virus???
Keywords: virus
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.042703.16945@cse.uta.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 04:27:03 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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