Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: future viruses on a PC Pull plug before cleaning Message-ID: <0014.8911101233.AA16030@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Nov 89 07:38:05 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 15 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Sorry again turning off power will stop the current execution of the virus... but... unless you are perfect in your safe computing habits and your tools are up to snuff and you give your harddisk an engineering prep as you power up and ALL your software is clean.. you can still be hit upon power up... following post you invok int19 to read the boot tracks in loc 7c00 it is at this point you are first vunerable...and not under control of ANY antiviral tool I have heard about...(VIRUS_PROOF pc designs not withstanding... even cd-rom has been infected during the production of shareware libaraies...) but you wont incurr damage to your data while power is off but neither can you get to it either...I am not saying the problem is unsolvable nor hard to deal with just realize the power off switch is no REAL protection some time or another you will eventually power up... cheers kelly