Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Russell Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.announce,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: RSD ANIM 1.5 - URGENT - VIRUS INFECTION Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:16:14 +0100 Organization: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Lines: 17 Message-ID: <35DDB96E.AE8BE2F4@scee.sony.co.uk> References: <01bdca0a$929ba700$230b0a0a@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> <35DD56CD.5DBD791B@scee.sony.co.uk> <35DD7600.F1FF6359@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <35DD7ABC.47B2D4C3@scee.sony.co.uk> <6rkb0a$d2j12@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.announce:117 scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics:846 Nick Slaven wrote: > > How dangerous is this Virus - > Are we talking major hard disk wipe out or just another bacteria type virus. > Does it affect EXEs only or data files as well Well, I had to install Windows again, and most of my other apps. Win32 EXEs are the only ones affected. It doesn't change the file size, and most apps _seem_ to work ok, but it completely crashed my compilers and linkers, and it took ages to find out why. Mcafee didn't say if it did anything other than replicate itself (ie, "on the Xth day of the Xth month 19XX it will wipe your system"), but I'd get rid of it ASAP if I were you. -- == James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk +44 (171) 447-1626 == Developer Support Engineer - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Et tu, Bob?