Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!encore!soper
From: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: virus
Message-ID: <2650@encore.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 17:13:20 GMT
References: <6846@oberon.USC.EDU>
Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu
Reply-To: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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Summary: test proposal
Distribution:



  Why not have a program that says "insert a known good disk", reads this
disk's boot block, then says "now insert the disk to test", and then
compares this boot block with the known good one. If they don't compare,
bingo. This would also handle game disks or whatever that have boot blocks
intentionally modified, since you can get an original (that you've
kept under your bed, from a friend, etc) to run the test with. For all
the rest you would just need a known good vanilla bootable disk.
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Pete Soper, Encore Computer Corp         (919) 481-3730)
arpa: soper@multimax.arpa (192.5.63.14)
uucp: {necntc,talcott,ihnp4,decvax,allegra}!encore!soper