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                    │        VIRUS REPORT         │
                    │             EDV             │
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Date of Origin: January, 1990.

Host Machine: PC compatibles.

Host Files: Remains resident. Infects boot sector of both floppies and
hard disks, and infects hard disk partition tables.

Increase in Size of Infected Files: n/a

Nature of Damage: Corrupts or overwrites boot sector. Affects system
run-time operation.

Detected by: Scanv58+, IBM Scan.

Removed by: MDisk/P.

Scan Code: "MSDOS Vers. E.D.V." appears at the end of the boot sector on
infected floppies.

     The EDV virus was first reported by David Chess at IBM. It is a boot
sector and partition table virus. Troublesome, it causes program crashes
and some data destruction.


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