Re: OS/2 system stopped due to virus (FAT partition)? (OS/2) (PC)

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From: McAfee Associates
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:42

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Hello Wey Jing Ho,

you write:
>My PC has just been infected by an unknown virus (both McAfee Scan
>Version 97 and CPAV failed to identify it/them). SCAN only report that
>all of the hard disk boot sectors have been modified (as compared to a
>CRC file created before the infection). I have both MS-DOS 5.00 and
>OS/2 (with the latest CSD) installed with DOS on FAT and OS/2 on HPFS.
[...deleted...]

If you are running an OS/2 Dual Boot system, SCAN will report that the
boot sector has been modified when you switch from DOS to OS/2.  This
is because OS/2 swaps the boot sector on the drive depending on which
operating system you are using.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
Technical Support

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Subject: Re: OS/2 system stopped due to virus (FAT partition)? (OS/2) (PC)
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