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New Virus for the PC

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From: David M. Chess
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 20:14
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> This virus marks track 39 sector 8 as bad (it stores the virus there).

Hm.  That's the place where the Yale/Alameda virus stores the original
boot record.  Perhaps you have a variant of that virus that does the
screen effect?  Are there any speaker noises (like the 17xx virus
produces), or little bouncing balls on the screen?  Or do letters just
get blanked out?

DC
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From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David M. Chess)
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Subject: New Virus for the PC
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