Product Support Bulletin

EPSON AMERICA, INC.

EPSON

Subject: Virus Contamination of EISA Series Reference Diskette

Date: 12/04/92

PSB No: S-0149

Page(s): 1 of 1

Originator: KAS

The purpose of this bulletin is to notify you that some copies of the ElSA Series

Reference Disk #2 on 5.25” media may be contaminated with Michelangelo virus.

This virus has not been detected on 3.5” media or other diskettes.

This virus has been verified in the boot sector of revision 1.04 of the Reference

Disk #2 on 5.25” media. Please note that it is necessary to boot from this diskette

to cause infection of the system’s hard disk drive. Normal procedure is to boot only

from Reference Disk #1.

NOTE: Infection of the system’s hard disk drive may cause corruption of the

hard disk drive FAT file, if the virus is activated on Michelangelo’s

birthday, March 6. This may result in an inability to access data on the

hard disk drive.

A virus-free copy of Disk #2 is available on the Epson Product Support RBBS. It is

in the EISA File Library and is called REF2_N92.EXE. This file is a self-extracting

file. It should be downloaded with protocol (such as XMODEM) and then executed.