Who has shipped viruses with their shrink-wrapped product?
Courtesy of IBM, my computer’s master boot record has become infected with what Virus Alert calls “Neuville” and what Scan calls “2KB”. The virus came on IBM’s new Disk Manager 6.0.3, shipped directly from IBM Canada. (Although I normally scan everything, I didn’t scan the boot sector of this disk, thinking naively that it was safe because of the source.) I caught the infection with a routine scan shortly after the virus installed itself on my MBR. No other files or floppies are reported affected, and I can boot from a (clean) floppy.
