Return-Path: XPUM04@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk Received: from G.SEI.CMU.EDU by ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA13919; Fri, 1 Jun 90 11:40:00 -0400 Received: from SEI.CMU.EDU by g.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.5) id AA20654; Fri, 1 Jun 90 11:39:58 -0400 Received: from nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA01761; Fri, 1 Jun 90 11:39:28 -0400 Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa24296; 1 Jun 90 16:18 BST From: Anthony Appleyard To: KRVW <@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK:KRVW@sei.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 90 16:09:36 BST Message-Id: <$TGTWCZCFFBTR at UMPA> Subject: Virus-L vol 0 issue #0528 Virus-L Digest Sat, 28 May 88, Volume 0 : Issue #0528 Today's Topics Re: bad tabs Warning: Flushot4 is a virus! Naive virus questions ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 May 88 13:29:00 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: Stan Horwitz Subject: Re: bad tabs In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 27 May 88 16:30:00 EST from Write protect tabs to prevent tamporing of disks is plain silly. All any prankster need do is to remove the write protect tab from the disk to sabatage a disk. When done, it's a simple matter to stick a new write protect tab back on the damage disk. A better solution is to use notchless disks and write to them on a machine altered so it won't complain about the disk. If memory serves, I believe I have heard that write protect tabs can also fail when they are sqeezed or bent in a certain way due to age but I am not sure of this. Stan Horwitz Mainframe Consultant Disclaimer -- Who me? I didn't say that? V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu Temple Univeristy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA -------------------- Date: Sat, 28 May 88 17:20:00 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List Comments: Resent-From: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA Comments: Originally-From: ihnp4!ho95e!wcs@ATT.ARPA (Bill.Stewart.) From: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA Subject: Warning: Flushot4 is a virus! A program called Flushot4 was recently seen on a BBS out west. Ross Greenberg's Flushot versions don't go up that high, and this one was apparently a virus advertising itself as vaccine. So if you see it, don't use it, don't trust anything from the machine it's on, call the operator of the machine you see it on, etc. -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs # Computers - Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things! # Make you late for dinner. or breakfast. -------------------- Date: Sat, 28 May 88 19:06:50 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: David.Slonosky@QueensU.CA Subject: Naive virus questions 1) Is it possible to demount and mount the hard disk so that you can effectively work with the floppy drives and not have to worry about code being transferred to the hard disk? 2) Is it possible to design a virus that screws up the ROM? Hey, these may seem naive, but then I'm not a computer scientist by trade.