Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: File/Boot viruses Message-ID: <0007.9012201846.AA05875@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 20 Dec 90 10:37:22 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 16 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu CCTR132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald) writes: >You cannot get a boot-sector infector virus fron running an executable >(possibility of trojan "implanting" prog excepted - none known of). Sorry - this is no longer true - we have now several viruses, which may spread either as a file-infector or as a boot sector-infector. On of the Bulgarian virus writers has even probised one (Real Soon Now), which will in addition also be able to infect .SYS device drivers. - -frisk - -- 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 |