Re: Possible virus on Oracle Office Demo Disk

From: Daniel Looby <iasysdl_at_prism.gatech.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 93 16:10:30 GMT
Message-ID: <117189_at_hydra.gatech.EDU>

Earlier I wrote:

>I attended IOUW in Orlando in September. One of the things I brought back with
>me was an Oracle Office Demo disk. Last night at a local user group meeting
>somebody stated that the disk contained a virus. The virus is suppose to mess
>up files on your hard disk. Can anyone (especially Oracle) confirm or deny
>this?

Several people have sent me the following:

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Please beware that a virus has been detected on the Oracle Office Demo diskette (Part Number A13318) that was distributed at IOUW a few weeks ago.  

The virus is called "Cruncher" and it messes up random files on a hard drive. IOUW attendees probably brought back a few copies of the diskettes and you may have used them.  

Thanks to Mike Sharun of the Calgary office who learned about this first and let us all know.

There IS a way to clean the diskette, and as soon as I have the details, I'll pass them on. In the meantime, don't use the diskette, and I HOPE we don't have too many messed up hard drives ...  

Thanks,  

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Dorothy Loeffen, dloeffen.ca vroute: 8-864-6414 phone: (416)890-0800 X6414 Technology Marketing Manager (CDE, RDBMS, Networking, Gateway, Oracle Office) ORACLE CORP CANADA INC,
110 Matheson Blvd. W., Mississauga, Ont., CANADA L5R 3P4 (International dialing: +416-890-0800(X6414) FAX: (416)890-4033 /* End of included text */

Let us hope Dorothy Loeffen is right and not too many messed up hard drives!

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Received on Fri Oct 15 1993 - 17:10:30 CET