On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Collin McClendon wrote:
> I don't think I've been exchanging many files, this is the only virus I have
> ever had and man was it nasty. My only saving grace was a 4 cd backup.
> Backup often. Its harder to backup linux though with its multiple
> partitions etc, and I don't have a tape drive. I should just put linux on a
> separate harddrive. I wonder why no one on the net talked about a
> valentine's day virus? Maybe I was just the lucky one:). Oh BTW it did warn
> me, norton 5 did, saying my mbr had changed but I chose to innoculate the
> mbr not restore it, how stupid of me.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: min-ken.lai@yale.edu [mailto:min-ken.lai@yale.edu]On Behalf Of Ken
> Lai
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:47 PM
> To: Collin McClendon
> Subject: Re: virus on v-day
>
>
> When you turn it off, it was still ok?
> When you turned it back on, the partition table was dead?
> It does look like a partition sector virus...
> I feel for you man.
>
> It's kinda like STD, so you should warn people you've transferred files
> with recently... but of course, if we'd stayed under linux, no virus
> could do very much damage.
>
> Collin McClendon wrote:
> >
> > Now this may seem wierd but its true. I stayed up until the early morning
> on
> > sunday (14th)
> > and then turned off my computer and went to breakfast when I came back the
> > whole harddrive was gone, I checked some more and found random impossibly
> > sized partitions had been created, I suspect a virus, why did I have boot
> > windows ? arrg! I had backed up windows onto 4 cd's but alas linux is
> > completely gone, 4 months of work. What a tragedy.
>
> --
> # Ken Lai <min-ken.lai@yale.edu> also at ken.lai@WriteMe.com
> # http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ml267/ ICQ# 5845632
>
-- Ken Lai <min-ken.lai@yale.edu> also at ken.lai@WriteMe.com http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ml267/ ICQ# 5845632