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Re: important
i know what virus it is
thats what my virus program said it was
also if you read the discription it said " it is possible that you will
encounter a variant of this virus"
and i know when it is a virus when my virus program says "a virus has
been detected"
>Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:56:36 -0230
>Reply-To: David Critch <davidcritch@ROADRUNNER.NF.NET>
>From: David Critch <davidcritch@ROADRUNNER.NF.NET>
>Subject: Re: important
>To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
>
>Ken R. wrote:
>
>> yesterday i apperently got a virus(windows CIH virus) that infected
all
>> of my exe files so i had to reformat
>> this virus makes your comp a "slave" the person can control you when
>> ever you are online so this person can litraly can do anything with
your
>> comp
>> I may have picked this up at ticalc.org so would u all mind scanning
you
>> hard drive with a virus program
>>
>> p.s.if you sent me anything resend it it was deleted
>>
>> here is a description:
>> This virus is known to infect device drivers, but unknown variants
may
>> infect other items as well.
>>
>> This virus has been reported to be 'in the wild'.
>>
>> CLEANING INFORMATION:
>> Before cleaning or restoring, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to boot from a
>> clean, write-protected system diskette first! This is necessary to
>> ensure that no viruses are active in memory, and to reduce the risk
that
>> you execute an infected file by accident.
>>
>> As new variants of existing viruses appear almost daily, it is
possible
>> that you will encounter a variant of this virus which will still be
>> identified by our scanner, but behaves differently than described
above.
>> The information above is therefore intended as a basic guideline.
>>
>
>You got your virii mixed up there. CiH infects all your .exe's in
>C:\Windows\ and on the 26th of every month it activates it self and
erases
>your BIOS. BO, or Back Orifice, is a trojan horse virus. However, u
have to
>run the server installer for it to take affect. Then someone can take
>control of your puter. But like I said, u have to run the server
program
>first. So more than likely, u just got CiH, if u actually got a virus
in the
>first place.
>
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