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 AA04481; Wed, 20 Jun 90 17:21:09 -0400 Received: from SEI.CMU.EDU by g.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.5) id AA06963; Wed, 20 Jun 90 17:21:09 -0400 Received: from nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA23120; Wed, 20 Jun 90 17:20:58 -0400 Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa23226; 20 Jun 90 16:20 BST From: Anthony Appleyard To: DAVIDF@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 16:33:48 BST Message-Id: <$TGWGCZNQBTRG at UMPA> Subject: Virus-L vol 0 issue #1024 Virus-L Digest Mon, 24 Oct 88, Volume 0 : Issue #1024 Today's Topics Dissertation Copy? even *MORE* on hardware damage ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ARCHIVE RE: CMU and the virus Re: The Virus Conference - thank you JV Virus... Conference PC disk diagnostics- destructive? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 02:35:00 CDT From: GREENY Subject: Dissertation Copy? Does anyone know of where I could obtain a copy (if this is possible...) of Fred Cohen's dissertation on "Computer Viruses -- Theory and Experiments"? Thanx in advance.... Bye for now but not for long, Greeny Bitnet: miss026@ecncdc Internet: miss026%ecncdc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Disclaimer: Do I really need one? -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 03:01:00 CDT From: GREENY Subject: even *MORE* on hardware damage All this talk of "programs" causing damage to hardware has caused a few of the ole cobwebs to clear out of the history section of my brain which caused a story that I heard a long long time ago in a CS101 class to surface.. "...It seems that a programmer who delighted in taking excessively long lunch hours discovered a way to shut down the computer for hours at a time. It happened that the programmer -- in those days also being somewhat of an Electrical Engineer -- discovered exactly which MAGNETIC CORE was closest to the High-Temp shutdown sensor, and wrote a program which continously wrote an alternating pattern of binary 0's and 1's to *THE* core, until it got hot enough to trigger the High-Temp shutdown sensor. The sensor, being decieved into thinking that the entire machine was overheating, promptly shut it down" ...An oldie, but a goodie... Bye for now but not for long, Greeny Bitnet: miss026@ecncdc Internet: miss026%ecncdc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Disclaimer: If you happen to still have some core memory machines being used and you pull this trick -- forget where you read this! :-> -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 13:19:00 PDT From: SUE@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM ARCHIVE From: IN%"ADVISE-L@NDSUVM1" "User Services List" 24-OCT-1988 13:00 Subj: Re: Virus... Date: Fri, 21 Oct 88 23:39:29 CDT From: David Boyes The archive server at RPICICGE (and indirectly SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL) maintains a huge collection of anti-viral programs that should prove equal to most viroid strains. Directions for using the RPI archive server can be found in the latest issues of NetMonth (published by the famous Chris Condon [BITLIB@YALEVM] and available from better servers near you, esp. LISTSERV@MARIST). If you have access to the Internet, the files are stored on simtel20.army.mil, IP address 26.0.0.74. Log in as user ANONYMOUS, password is your real userid and node. All the virus-related files are stored in the directory PD1:. For those of you getting the programs via the Internet, remember that SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL is a DEC-20 and uses 36-bit words. You *must* use TENEX mode when you FTP the files or you *will* get garbage -- issue the TENEX command before doing the GET for the file you want. David Boyes (713) 527-4852 |BITNET: DBOYES@RICE Systems Group |Internet: dboyes@icsa.rice.edu ICSA - Rice University | UUCP: [your fav backbone]...!psuvax1!uncle-bens.rice.edu!dboyes -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 16:10:34 CDT From: Kevin Trojanowski Subject: RE: CMU and the virus I just talked with a friend of mine who happens to be a student at CMU about viruses, and CMU did indeed get hit. I'm not sure what virus it was, but it infected their Macs, including some file servers. It seems the virus got onto one of the servers, and a new version of software for a class was to be distributed. Their distribution method is such that the software is placed on the server, and all students needing it can then copy from the server for their own uses. Well, the server containing the distribution copy of Genie (a Pascal interpreter of sorts) was contaminated, and thus an infested copy of Genie got quickly and widely spready around campus. I know this is somewhat sketchy, but it's all I have for now. Perhaps someone a little closer to the Pittsburgh area can get more information? -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 14:16:00 MDT From: KEENAN@UNCAMULT Subject: Re: The Virus Conference - thank you In-Reply-To: Message of 23 Oct 88 21:15 MDT from "Loren K Keim -- Lehigh Univer Loren, I think you did an excellent service in organizing the conference. The three of us from Calgary (Grey Lypowy, Corey Wirun and myself) found it very helpful to be able to work some ideas back and forth without the delays and mis-communications inevitable in this electronic medium. Also, it gave us a good handle on what you guys are doing and, hopefully, you understand what we are up to in Canada. I think a follow-on conference is needed at some point but we should all sit back and digest this one for a while. Tom Keenan -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 19:10:23 EDT From: "Pedro Sepulveda J." Subject: JV Virus... Hi Networkers...! We are a group of student of the 'Universidad de Santiago de Chile' with a special interest, 'Computer Viruses'. Our investigations are oriented on the Jerusalem Virus (also known as the 'Hebrew University Virus'), since that JV only has come at this moment. Due to circumstances of the educational ambient, we want to protect our works and resources. We are disassembling the greater part of the JV. If you are interested in our work and you have information too, we would can to join efforts for to learn of the viruses instead of to be prejudiced for its and so to direct this knowledges for good road. Pedro Sepulveda J., Universidad de Santiago de Chile -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 14:51:00 EST From: ACS045@GMUVAX Subject: Conference I myself found the size of the conference to actually be a boon more than anything else...it was a lot easier to disseminate information across a table than across the room, and I found it to be quite informative. Thanks to Loren and all the others who helped make this possible and I'd like to toss in a special thanx to the guys from Calgary and Cornell who helped in carting me around this weekend----it was and is much appreciated. Overall I'd say it was a successful and quite informative meeting..... Steve Okay ACS045@GMUVAX.BITNET/acs045@gmuvax2.gmu.edu/CSR032 on The Source "Ahhh...the keyboard...how quaint" -------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 11:31:41 EDT From: SHERK@UMDD Subject: PC disk diagnostics- destructive? In-Reply-To: Message received on Fri, 21 Oct 88 13:02:30 EDT "When I worked for a company which sold PC's we burned them in before delivery by stressing them as much as possible. One of the things we did to test drives was to run the diagnostics continuously overnight. It turned up some defective machines (which we returned) but I don't remember the ones we sent on to our customers coming back with problems in the drives at a higher rate than the machines I fixed which we had not burned in. Based on this I conclude that the PC diagnostic seek test is non-destructive (despite the noise). If anyone has any actual experience to the contrary PLEASE post it.":- You are right, it does no harm. In fact, with a little lubrication it doesn't even make much noise. Erik Sherk, Workstation Programer, University of Maryland -------------------- *** end of Virus-L issue ***