As you know, the world of computers is becoming more complex
        every minute with new technologies arising all of the time.
        Unfortunately, some of this technology can be used against us.
        According to McAfee Associates and Symantec officials, there has
        been a new virus that has been discovered.
        According to them, the current virus detection and removal
        software that they sell CANNOT detect this virus on systems
        running Windows 98.
        This is due to Windows 98's new memory management system
        features.
        According to McAfee Associates, this virus was written in the
        Assembly language, and loads itself in to the system's upper
        memory.
        Because of a flaw in the Windows 98 Memory Management
        System, MMS, this virus can load itself into a part of the upper
        memory block which cannot be accessed or scanned by either
        McAfee ViruScan, or Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus. Other virus
        protection utilities have not reported such errors, and have not
        been tested either. Microsoft is aware of this error and is
        currently working on a patch. Unfortunately, users with Windows
        98 already installed have no choice but to continue running the
        OS and can only hope that this virus does not attack their
        system. It is believed that a person with access to Microsoft's
        source code may have written this virus, or leaked out the
        source code to somebody else, who wrote the virus. The
        characteristics of the Memphis.98.MMS are not full known, but
        certain characteristics are.

        OS: Windows 98 (4.10.1998)
        Memory Resistant: Yes
        Polymorphic: Yes
        Repairable: No
        Encrypted: No
        Infects: Floppy\Boot records
        All EXE files that are ran while virus is in memory
        Origin: Unknown
        Virus Size: Unknown
        Actions: The Memphis.98.MMS virus performs several actions while
        active, including: Slow disk I/O, spontaneous rebooting and
        monitor "flickering".  Also, you may receive a Windows error
        which says:  "Error in MMS. Please reboot and retry.  If this
        error continues to occur, please contact Micros0ft, and report
        the Memphis.98.M MS error.  Thank you, and enjoy Windows98."
        Extras: You may notice the zero, 0,
        instead of an o in Micros0ft, which
        indicates that this is a malicious program.

        The origin of the virus is unknown, but is believed to be
        written in the western United States, because that was where the
        first bunch of virus activity were reported.  One of the most
        mysterious characteristics of this virus is that it does not
        affect any Microsoft applications, such as MS Visual C++, VB,
        J++, Office97, Flight Sim, Frontpage97, Internet Explorer, and
        any other Microsoft product.

        Please send an e-mail to VirusWatch@juno.com if you detect any
        strange virus like activity or any more information about virus.
        Also, please e-mail if you suspect that there is a new virus
        that people do not know of.

        -VirusWatch