Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 1999 01:13:11 -0500 | From | Nicholas Henke <> | Subject | WAY OT--Crisis...virus! Need help |
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A friend of mine here at Penn has a weird problem. I think it may have been caused by a virus. He normally runs windows, and this evening after midnight, he tried to play a game and his computer froze up. After reboot he couldnt get anything to work. I booted with 2.0.36 and 2.2.6 off of boot disks. Everything goes normal...the chipset is setup correctly. It barfs when it gets to checking the partitions. The swapper (pid 1 process nr: 1) gives a general protection fault. What can I do to further check out his drive. Is this looking like his chipset/hard drive firmware is corrupted. We had a campus email that came out thise week on the "Chernobyl Virus" I cant remember the exact message, but i remember that the virus was toting bios corruption and motherboard frying. I dismissed it as FUD, but maybe it is true. Anyhelp would be much apprecitated because he has papers due for finals this week. I also appologize for being so far off topic, but maybe this will give insite to those of us wishing to diagnose nasty HD problems. Thank you Nic -- Nicholas Henke University of Pennsylvania Class of 2002 215-417-5665 (ht/ft)tp://bs28-222-095.resnet.upenn.edu ---------------------- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same.
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