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From: KMILES@cc.usu.edu (Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: HELP.  Need lode-runner virus info
Message-ID: <14447@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 15:55:27 GMT
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In article <897@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
> In article <3266@husc6.harvard.edu>, huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) writes:
>> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>> > KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") writes:
>> >> I just got hit by the lode-runner virus.
>> >How do you get a virus from a commercial program?
>> I don't think Kurt said it was a commercial program.  Public domain
>> and shareware programs are also great targets for viruses.
>>
> Sorry, I thought that he had gotten the virus from the Broderbund game
> of that name. I thought that this may have been the first case (that I
> had heard of) of a virus being planted by the infamous disgruntled
> employee.
>
> Bob Church
> att!oucsace!bchurch

Actually, it was first discovered via the lode-runner game if I remember
correctly, and thus was named.  Actually, it is a boot virus, one that erases
blocks 0 and 1 of the disk being booted (warm boot) after being booted from
another disk.  I think I got it from a homegrown program given to me by a
friend, but I'm not sure.  I received a lot of information from other son the
net, and even got a program to check to see if any of the other disks were
infected.  It looks like I got the culprit, and I haven't found any other
infected disks.

I will ask the author of the message and program if I can post it, since it
came via e-mail, and if he says ok, I'll post it.

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