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Re: WARNING!

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Oct 05, 1998
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Stop making this a bigger deal than it is.
Computers are like cars, if you dont know how to use them, you shouldnt be
using them.
And Matt, dont say things that arent true. 1) It is not a virus.. 2) You do
not loose 'communication with your computer' .. you still have a full
functional BIOS, HD and OS, you're just missing some boot files. Big deal.

So, lets fix those PC's now.. you needed to install windows (and thus all
windows-programs!) Esspecially those who have only run it for a second. No
file that was currently in use by the system, could in any way be delete
(you would get an "file share error" or "disk acces violation") .. so you're
system (except the low-level boot files!) will start up as normal anyways.

Get your Windows start-up disk and type the following:

[ If you dont made a start-up disk (dumb!) then can get your CD-Rom disk (to
install win95/98) and press Shift-F8 when it boots up).. type: "path
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND" ]

-- Part 1) Restoring DOS (win95/98 boot files as well)

    a:\
    attrib -h -r -s *.*
    copy *.sys c:\
    c:\
    attrib +h +r +s *.sys

-- Part 2) Restoring crucial windows system files

    copy c:\windows\backup c:\windows\system

-- Part 3) Restoring general purpose DLL's

    First try out your programs, maybe it only deleted redunant DLL's.
    If one or programs dont work due to one or two missing DLL's write down
their names, and either 1) email it to me: I'll be happy to send you those
files, If I do have them or you can 2) use ftpsearch or www.filez.com and
try to find the file on the net.
    However if you are missing multiple files, and have a hard time finding
them. Perform the following steps: (you need a lot of HD for this)
    1) pkzip inifiles.zip c:\windows\*.ini
    2) pkzip progs.zip c:\progra~1\ -d -r
    3) pkzip regs.zip c:\windows\system.dat c:\windows\user.dat

    -Restart the system-
    !! Re-install all the non-functioning software !!
    And go to a clean DOS mode again (ie. through startup-disk or F8-Command
Prompt Only)

    1) pkunzip inifiles c:\windows\
    2) pkunzip progs.zip c:\progra~1\   -d
    3) attrib -h -r -s c:\windows\user.dat c:\windows\system.dat
    4) pkunzip regs.zip c:\windows\
    5) attrib +h +r +s c:\windows\user.dat c:\windows\system.dat


-- This is a clean and working approuch. It will (when you have enough HD
space) be garanteed to work.

>his virus can kill your DOS system ***INSTANTLY***, from what i heard. If
>it deletes IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS, then you lose all communication with
>your computer, and youre computer loses all commication to you. And
>MSDOS.SYS is one of the most important parts of your PC!

Important..? Matt dont say things you know nothing about.
A few hundred k's defining the code behind the interrupts virtually freely
available everywhere. Just copy them back to the system.

For any questions, problems, I'll be happy to help:

Ralf
nieuwen at xs4all.nl