Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:31:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: WAY OT--Crisis...virus! Need help |
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Oh, boy. Yeah, it is the Chernobyl virus most likely. I think this one destroys the OS.
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Nicholas Henke wrote:
> 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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