Richard_Cranium72
01-05-2001, 01:38 PM
The pewter I built for my Pal's daughter, Christmas, has expired.
It seems to have contracted the "Smiley Face" Virus.
I had installed the free AV that we discussed lately but it bypassed it, a trogan I suspect.
The first sign to these very new computer users was a falure to boot.
When I tried to "repair" the boot sector during fdisk, 64,000 files were corrupted with symbols.
These varied from smiley faces to palm trees and varied symbols.
It took 3 formats to wipe it clear.
The machine would stop in mid "setup" one time at 22%.
The 3rd time it took and seems fine.
Oddly, the used Quantum Fireball 2.5gb showed 2 bad sectors previously, now NONE.
I wonder if the disc had the virus before and just appeared out of the bad sectors..
Another pal who runs a TV/Computer repair shop right away identified this viurs, said he has seen it before,, ?
DrVette
It seems to have contracted the "Smiley Face" Virus.
I had installed the free AV that we discussed lately but it bypassed it, a trogan I suspect.
The first sign to these very new computer users was a falure to boot.
When I tried to "repair" the boot sector during fdisk, 64,000 files were corrupted with symbols.
These varied from smiley faces to palm trees and varied symbols.
It took 3 formats to wipe it clear.
The machine would stop in mid "setup" one time at 22%.
The 3rd time it took and seems fine.
Oddly, the used Quantum Fireball 2.5gb showed 2 bad sectors previously, now NONE.
I wonder if the disc had the virus before and just appeared out of the bad sectors..
Another pal who runs a TV/Computer repair shop right away identified this viurs, said he has seen it before,, ?
DrVette