James
james@whispering.org
>
>
> 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
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