From: Brian Nesbitt (b.nesbitt at domain am.qub.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 26 Apr 1999 - 14:02:34 IST
Hello all,
We got hit on Friday by trying to wipe it using Norton 5.
Norton found it and asked if we wanted to 'fix it' which
we did. After the obligatory reboot we found that the partition
tables had been trashed. Anyone else get this ?
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Regards
Brian Nesbitt
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On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:40:08PM +0100, p.dempsey at domain elab.ie wrote:
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> "John P. Looney" <valen at domain redbrick.dcu.ie> on 26/04/99 12:30:22
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> To: Irish LUG list <ilug at domain linux.ie>
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> 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.
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> If you dual boot windows....think very hard before rebooting into it
> today, unless it's off a virus checking floppy...
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> Damn, I'd hate to have to use Windows.
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> Kate
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> My work PC was unaffected, though there is a possibility my home PC is.
> Would changing the time in the BIOS save my PC just in case?
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> I unfortunately have some Word documents which I have to work on tonight.
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> Peter
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