klez virus

[Michael Hipp]

I took a quick look at www.symantec.com and read up again on Klez. I find no 
indication that it is capable of such damage to either the cmos or hdd. So 
you either got really unlucky that something went wrong by at the same time 
coincidence or there's something else afoot. I suppose it's possible you 
discovered a new deadly variant, but the liklihood is low.

Go back to basic troubleshooting techniques. Check everything including 
simple stuff like bios settings, master/slave jumpers, partition types, 
cables, etc.

Just some thoughts...
Michael

On Monday 17 June 2002 04:12 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> I need a bit of help here as a customer of mine got this virus and it has
> damaged the bios and killed his Harddrive. The death of the hd was
> progressive in that first it would not boot and now the bios on another
> machine will not see it.
>
> I know from my electronics background and experience over the years that
> malicious virii can/do kill hardware. However I was asked HOW, and I find
> myself knowing the tchnicalities but expressing that in understandable
> english, errrrmmmm ??
>
> Specifically the virus has commands that attack and generate undue emf's
> at particular points causing either shorts or sharp temp rises.
>
> Can anyone make this more erudite and understandable to the unititiated,
> please.
>
> Why I need this is that I took a scsi card out two days before and it
> would not reboot, so I went to bios and resaved it, all was fine,
> rebooted and I left. Now there is the suspicion that what I did caused
> the problem. However as admitted two sone were online that night. In the
> morning when the owner woke the computer up it came up with the virus
> protector saying that 10 files were infected with KLEZ, he went to clean
> them up and the machine stopped dead half way through a write. It refused
> to reboot and that were I came in. The owner is a pro photographer with
> weddings on the hd but it now seesm to be electrically dead, when put in
> my machine it  will not even see the drive, it is blank not eve a 'none'
> nothing appears.