Posted by Chris Faulkner on November 28, 1998 at 14:10:49:
In Reply to: Re: W32.CIH Virus posted by Hans van Mulder on September 02, 1998 at 10:31:37:
: : Is there anybody who was hurt by this virus?
: : Tank's!
: Hi
: We lost all our stuff on 2 of our computers.
: Without realy thinking of what I was doing,
: let the antivirus program take care of it.
: Big mistake.Computer did not reboot so I
: installed a new power supply. That didn't work
: either. But the next day afterfooling around with
: it for a while it started up again. Without my
: help that is, not knowingly.
: What I would like to know, we lost our harddrive
: for the second time in a 30 day period.The first
: one had all bad sectors, the 2, a brand new
: Quantum Bigfoot was rendered totally useless, I
: could not access it anymore.I tried to copy the
: data to another computer and that is how that one
: got infected. So I installed another harddrive and
: formatted all our drives just to get it over with.
: The question,
: Can the CIH virus do anything to one's harddrive?
:
: Thank you,
: Hans