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In article <31864f80.2075727@news.tuwien.ac.at>, e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at 
says...

>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

Where did you get the disks from?  There are no reports of anyone ever getting 
a virus from any of our disks.  Of course, we have not shipped those disks in 
almost a year.

David A Gasior
davidg@tbeach.com
Turtle Beach Systems

dgasior@ix.netcom.com (David Gasior) wrote:

>In article <31864f80.2075727@news.tuwien.ac.at>, e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at 
>says...
>
>>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
>
>Where did you get the disks from?  There are no reports of anyone ever getting 
>a virus from any of our disks.  Of course, we have not shipped those disks in 
>almost a year.
>


That was what I was thinking - that whoever had the card before he did
infected the diskettes.


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Werner Frieb wrote:
> 
> 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.
> -----------------------------
> Werner Frieb
> e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at
> -----------------------------

Werner:

I checked all my Turtle Beach diskettes -- no viruses.  My guess is your 
bug got onto the disks you have from some other source (did you bother 
to write-protect them before installing the driver-software?).

I've talked to other Turtle users across the country -- no bug reports 
from them either.  So far, you seem to be the only person with this 
problem -- better have a look at some of your programs on archive 
(especially public domain software).

Good Luck!

Cheers!

Pat Mullen
MSS Lab Group
prmullen@MCIMail.com

Werner Frieb wrote:
> 
> 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.
> -----------------------------
> Werner Frieb
> e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at
> -----------------------------

Werner:

I checked all my Turtle Beach diskettes -- no viruses.  My guess is your 
bug got onto the disks you have from some other source (did you bother 
to write-protect them before installing the driver-software?).

I've talked to other Turtle users across the country -- no bug reports 
from them either.  So far, you seem to be the only person with this 
problem -- better have a look at some of your programs on archive 
(especially public domain software).

Good Luck!

Cheers!

Pat Mullen
MSS Lab Group
prmullen@MCIMail.com

>David A Gasior:
>Where did you get the disks from?  There are no reports of anyone ever getting 
>a virus from any of our disks.  Of course, we have not shipped those disks in 
>almost a year.
I got them together with a NEW TB-Monterey Card.

> Mike Mills:
>That was what I was thinking - that whoever had the card before he did
>infected the diskettes.
I don't think that anybody used the disks before me. It's a NEW card
(I hope).

>Pat Mullen:
>I checked all my Turtle Beach diskettes -- no viruses.  My guess is your 
>bug got onto the disks you have from some other source (did you bother 
>to write-protect them before installing the driver-software?).
I didn't even remove the write-protection and I'm always protecting
disks containing original software. (Some of my principles)

>Pat Mullen:
>I've talked to other Turtle users across the country -- no bug reports 
>from them either.  So far, you seem to be the only person with this 
>problem -- better have a look at some of your programs on archive 
>(especially public domain software).

I was quite sure that the virus is from TB. Can't be so now.
So I haven't a clue where I've got the virus and how it came onto the
TB disks.
Sorry for alarming you, I just wanted to prevent harm.

Thanks for your answers.
Bye, Werner.

-----------------------------
Werner Frieb
e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at
-----------------------------

Werner Frieb wrote:
> 
> >David A Gasior:
> >Where did you get the disks from?  There are no reports of anyone ever getting
> 
> I was quite sure that the virus is from TB. Can't be so now.
> So I haven't a clue where I've got the virus and how it came onto the
> TB disks.
> Sorry for alarming you, I just wanted to prevent harm.

A little while ago I bought a cassette for my wife for Valentines day, 
the clerk noticed that the case was cracked and gave me a new one.  I 
asked him if he had a shrink wrap machine as I did not want to give an 
opened gift(again :-) ).  And he said yup, and used his hair dryer to 
re-shrink wrap the plastic.  Is it possible your local vendor re-sold the 
software?  Just my .02$ (Canadian).





-- 
Brian M.
Systems Officer 
MCSS
aka. Ichtus								
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On 1 May 1996 03:48:33 GMT, dgasior@ix.netcom.com (David Gasior)
wrote:

>In article <31864f80.2075727@news.tuwien.ac.at>, e8826872@student.tuwien.ac.at 
>says...
>
>>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
>
>Where did you get the disks from?  There are no reports of anyone ever getting 
>a virus from any of our disks.  Of course, we have not shipped those disks in 
>almost a year.
>
>David A Gasior
>davidg@tbeach.com
>Turtle Beach Systems
>

There are a lot of stores which have very liberal return policies.  I
can't imagine a store not repackaging returned products and reselling
them as new.  If they do, then someone else may have infected the disk
and then returned it.  The reselling of used hardware as new is, I
believe, a widespread practice.  In fact, I expect to see a whole slew
of lawsuits concerning this matter.


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