--- Forwarded Message from "Jackie M. Tanner" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:45 -0400 (EDT) >From: "Jackie M. Tanner" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: cih virus This virus caught some of us by surprise; some of us were asked why we had not put out some sort of "warning" or reminder or tips on how to avoid. These questions open up lots of other questions about responsibility. Whatever. How did some of you handle this particular virus? I'm sharing the following activities from Colby and hope the informtion may be helpful to someone. the ITS team used Tiramisu to recover most files, experiments with directory recovery utilities like MBR32 were not fully successful. Currently, to help students retrieve papers, we're following this procedure: starting up the machine with a windows 95 boot disk then using Tiramisu to recover files The files are recoverd to a zip disk Then the zip disk is connected to a machine and scanned for viruses using norton ....it finds viruses and removes them ,next we've burned CD's (pc format) since there are to many files to fit on a floppy. The student then picks up the CD and is shown how to use it, copying files to a floppy to revise/work with them. Once we have all the documents retrieved then we will start working on reformatting machines. There may be some problem machines that will take longer but we hope to have most machines completed by tomorrow.