Yep, Got it here at work too, laid waste to 5 pc's already. Cant wait for
some more cause theres another 1200 PC's here to go.
Its going to be a long day.......... in windows
Regards
Robert Sweetnam
----- Original Message -----
From: Moloney, Mark <Mark.Moloney at emea.gateway.com>
To: 'ILUG' <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] destruction
> Ah, yes, I've come across this a couple of times this morning already. I
> never heard of it before today. Very cool - only affects Win95 & Win98.
Heh
> heh heh...
>>> Mark
>>Mark.Moloney at emea.gateway.com> The harder you try, the luckier you get
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: John P. Looney [mailto:valen at redbrick.dcu.ie]
> Sent: 26 April 1999 12:30
> To: Irish LUG list
> Subject: [ILUG] destruction
>>> So, did many people get bitten by that Chernobyl.cih virus ? Loads of
> people in DCU have lost stuff - it waited until today, and then trashed
the
> BIOS, the boot sector, partition table & the first few megs of the FAT.
>> If you dual boot windows....think very hard before rebooting into it
> today, unless it's off a virus checking floppy...
>> Damn, I'd hate to have to use Windows.
>> Kate
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