Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus Author comes forward!!!
Message-ID: <1346@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 11:01:09 GMT
References: <3007@cbmvax.UUCP> <3008@cbmvax.UUCP> <6028@cisunx.UUCP> <263@coplex.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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I don't mean to be insensitive or anything, but this whole thing is beginning
to sound like a discussion of AIDS. One guy says you should never have
anything to do with "those people" (in this case, pirates). Another says it's
OK so long as you're not one of "those people" yourself. Then you have the
paranoids refusing to "do it" (trade PD or other software) at all. And of
course there's the recommendations that you wear your write protect tabs at
all times...

And now that the cat is out of the bag there will be variant viruses hiding
in other places than the boot block. Just like the IBM world.

I think the Amiga version of CHK4BOMB is likely to be a LOT harder than the
IBM version... you could start, I guess, looking for the strings "hddisk.device"
or "trackdisk.device" in programs. Then hardwired references to "DH0:" and
"JH0:". But I don't think that's going to be enough...

It's enough to make you want to switch to UNIX.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.