VIRUS found on my Turtle Beach Disks!!

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From: Werner Frieb
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00

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Hi!

Today I found the "Parity B" virus on following Turtle Beach Disks:

Turtle Beach Wave SE 1.2 disk 
Turtle Beach Monterey v1.1 Drivers and Applications disk

The "Parity B" virus is a boot sector virus. It writes itself to the
boot sector of harddisks and floppy-disks and can (to my opinion) only
be activated when trying to boot from the infected disk. (What I've
unintentionally done yesterday.)
Windows 95 was reporting that the master boot record (of my HDD) was
modified and Windows 3.1 was exiting during system load.
You can find and remove it with SCAN V 2.2.11 (use the /clean option).
I've only found it on my HDD and on the disks mentioned above. Either
there was no time for it to infect other applications or it is just
infecting the boot record.

Please let me know if you've found it too.

Bye, Werner.
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Werner Frieb
e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at
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From: e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at (Werner Frieb)
Subject: VIRUS found on my Turtle Beach Disks!!
Date: 1996/04/30
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