Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Viruses Message-ID: <4107@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 17 Jan 90 14:08:21 GMT References: <9001151627.AA03713@CASPIAN.SAIC.COM> Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 29 In article <9001151627.AA03713@CASPIAN.SAIC.COM> steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes: >The only problem with an 'anti-body' program is that some jerk will >no doubt create a virus that 'looks' like an antibody program, >flashing the screen, etc, so you think you're safe, when in fact >you're being infected. The best defense would be source code to >an anti-body program so that you could customize the bootup action. >If my disk boots and says "Steve Goldstein, this disk is safe" >I can be pretty sure it's MY message, and not a deviant strain of a >'public' anti-body program with a much more generic message. Well I just submitted by mail my whole virus protection kaboodle to the address given by Stephen Grimm on the net so hopefully you'll see them in the binaries group soon. If not I'll post them there myself. One of the programs does exactly what you want with the boot sector. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of ! ! being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with ! ! being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being ! ! told that I am!" - Monty Python ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+