Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Craig Graham Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.announce,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: RSD ANIM 1.5 - URGENT - VIRUS INFECTION Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:25:05 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <35DE8E71.F9E8214B@hinge.mistral.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> <35DDB96E.AE8BE2F4@scee.sony.co.uk> <6rkq01$1qh5@scea> <6rlago$d2j14@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1-s51-83-telehouse.mistral.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.announce:120 scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics:850 Nick Slaven wrote: > Steve Spiller wrote in message <6rkq01$1qh5@scea>... > >It replicates in Win95 program files. It's a nasty bugger... Depending on > >what version you have, on the 26th of any given month, it will attempt to > >nuke your FlashBIOS and the MBRs of your hard disks. > > Yikes !! > > >>Well, I had to install Windows again, and most of my other apps. I've used AVP (as recommended by James Russell) to clean the virusoff my system - it spotted all the infected files & repaired them. System's clean now.....no re-install needed, takes about half an hour. > Didn't take too long, honest! Sorry for the inconvenience, I've no idea where it came from, but I'll replace the archive with a clean one later this weekend...... > Nick (S) Craig.