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From: USERQBPP@SFU.BITNET (Robert Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: DOS viri and OS/2 (PC)
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Date: 1 Dec 90 06:42:58 GMT
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Kevin Haney wanted to know about DOS viri working on OS/2 machines.
One of our operations/support people recently got himself infected
while trying to deal with a virus from a user's machine.

The operator's PC is normally running OS/2, but has a FAT structured
hard disk so as to be able to boot DOS off a floppy.  I was not
(unfortunately) called in at the beginning of the attempt, so I am not
usre how the operator infected himself, but when I did get called in I
found that "Stoned" had infected the partition boot record of the hard
disk, aand was resident in memory as well.  However, I did not succeed
in inducing it to infect the disks we offered it as bait, so perhaps
(perhaps, mind you) it wasn't active.


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