Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Steve Spiller" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.announce,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: RSD ANIM 1.5 - URGENT - VIRUS INFECTION Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:57:47 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: <6rkq01$1qh5@scea> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.connext.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.announce:118 scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics:847 James Russell wrote in message <35DDB96E.AE8BE2F4@scee.sony.co.uk>... >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 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. I was able to disinfect my systems with Norton and everything still seems to work fine. > >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. > I agree... ASAP. >-- >== James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk +44 (171) 447-1626 >== Developer Support Engineer - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe > >Et tu, Bob? -Steve