Monday, January 20, 2003

I got a virus... in more ways than one. To sart with, I had a 4 day weekend, but I was throwing up half the time. I got a cold or the flu or something like that, and it really sucks (ed?) I am mostly over it as of today, but didn't really do anything all weekend. Who knows where I got that from, but my mom was pretty sick too...
The other virus I got was on my computer. I know, I know, you are thinking (as I always think) that its just my computer screwing up, not a virus. That is usually the case, but not this time I am afraid. How 'bout I tell you about it:
It all started when I was trying to get a DOS program to work... I tried running it from a windows 95 box I have, but no luck. Next, naturally, I try and create a DOS boot disk in windows XP off my dad's computer (I run 2000), but right as I was formatting it, his little virus watcher pops up saying he has a crappy little virus. We both dismiss it because nothing had really happened. I made my little disk and was on my way to getting the program to work.
Until I tried booting it on my computer.
It told me I had a funny little virus now, and it said (r) for restart, (c) to continue booting. I pressed (r), naturally, and took out the disk. Yeah, then my computer didn't boot. It wasn't reading drive c or some darn thing, so I rebooted to the floppy again, but now my computer never made it past the BIOS check. After a few more boot disks (I have a collection of them), nothing worked. I got an idea to go on my dad's computer and see what the name of the virus was. It is called MONKEY (damn it ross...), and it turns out that it is only transmitted via floppy disks. It encrypts and relocates the information in the Master Boot Sector of your (my?) computer so it doesn't read any drives. Formatting the hard drive doens't even fix it. Nothing does, seems like. I have been all over the internet looking for a way to rid my computer of it. I even tried a program written in 1993 called killmonk.exe, and that didn't work. I am on to other virus software now, so wish me luck as I attempt to rescue my computer from the bowels of some twisted virus writers brain.