OFF: virus help

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Mon Jan 7 06:15:31 EST 2002


Having seen various messages about viruses pass by the list, I thought
maybe those with experience could offer advice.

Last night, after copying some CDR's I shut down the (Win 95)computer. What I
saw was massive and prolonged hard disc access followed by a message
"Unable to access drive C:" (That's the system drive on my PC) After
that it failed to pick up the boot drive on bootup. I put in a boot
floppy, did a SYS A: C: and then booted from the hard drive. I got the
system up and immediately upgraded the McAffee data files. I then tried
to upgrade the McAfee product and got a failure mssage, followed again
by massive hard drive activity. This time I powered down. Now even with
the boot floppy I can only get DOS and the A: drive up. It can't see the
hard drive at all and it's not detected at the hardware boot.

Lucy checked her work machine and found BADTRANS B virus and had it
cleaned.

So the question is whether these rather worrisome symptoms are
consistent with that virus or whether it's something else.

Cheers

FoFP



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