Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Surviving warm boot (Was: Lateral thinking) (PC) Message-ID: <0008.9012041821.AA14135@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 3 Dec 90 13:41:32 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 21 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu >>On Tue, 20 Nov 90 14:11:00 +0100, Peter van der Landen sai d: >> I have experimented quite a bit with Jerusalem-B but I have never seen >> it survive a warm boot. >Neither did I. Possibly the originial contribution has confused it with >some other virus that indeed can survive a warm boot. Jerusalem does not survive warm boot, and makes no attempt to do so, but there are several viruses known which attempt it, and also the following two cases: The Pentagon "virus" from the Philippenes contains code clearly intended to survive Ctrl-Alt-Del, and if it worked at all (instead of being totally unable to infect anything) we would have a virus which could survive warm boot. Fu Manchu intercepts Ctrl-Alt-Del, but will not survive the boot process. - -- Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland | Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) | Reserved for future expansion E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801 | Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com