Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!econadm5
From: econadm5@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viruses
Keywords: virus, antibody
Message-ID: <619@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 20:02:19 GMT
References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2900@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: econadm5@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2900@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>In article <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:
>
> |    I have heard of things called antibodies, that sit in
> | your boot sector and do something like flash the screen .  The idea
> | being that if a virus hits and writes over the antibody, you will
> | notice the screen not flashing.
> 
>This is the first I have heard of this idea, and I find it interesting.
>But I think it would drive me crazy.
>
>Does anyone have experience with something like this?
>
 Not yet but an offshoot idea from that one is to make a small accessory that
 when anything is written to the boot sector of the A or B disk drive the
 screen flashes and the info or the Sector number can be display momentarily,
 if this occurs and option to immunize the disk comes up and allows you to
 clear away a virus. I have started to work on such a program already in a
 different manor to protect my bbs from Back doors. If you want ill do this
 simple program on the side as I work on the Back door Killer.

 Dave Tomesch, Super BBS (519) 749-1206, Kwest Co-Chairman, StarTrak Inc.
 " Never say Never"