From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu, DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:07:11 GMT
Subject: Natas

  Sam Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu> wrote (Subject: Re: Help! I'm stuck in
V86 mode and I can't get out):-

> What is Natas?

NATAS is a very harmful and dangerous and virulent and fast-spreading computer
virus which is a boot infector AND a file infector and corrupts things. It can
reformat the hard disk and does untold damage. It is polymorphic. Whoever
wrote it should be tied to a post and blasted with the back end of a jet
fighter on afterburn. Recent versions of SCAN and VET and F-Prot can remove
NATAS. Some old versions of SCAN delete all NATAS-infected files. I heard a
dark rumour that some SCAN versions ignore polymorphic viruses unless you call
SCAN with an argument `-POLY'.