Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!nubode
From: nubode@ndsuvax.UUCP (Spyro Gyra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Viruses
Message-ID: <1090@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 05:15:21 GMT
Reply-To: nubode@ndsuvax.UUCP (Spyro Gyra)
Organization: The_Vortex:AlterNet Server
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One of the most devious virus attempts I have seen is a 'virus 
eliminator' that supposedly looked for CyberAIDS (supposedly 
written by Tom E. Hawk) in SYS files and 'destroyed' it.  Well,
a friend and I tried it on a backup copy of ProTERM which we 
obviously knew was NOT contaminated.  When the program came up 
with a 'this disk is contaminated, file PRODOS has been cured' or
something to that effect, we became curious.  The program 
itself installed CyberAIDS in the PRODOS file.  Quite nasty, 
eh?  I suggest writing thy own virus debuggers!

Clint Fleckenstein ("SpyroGyra")
NU132271@NDSUVM1.BITNET
nubode@plains.nodak.edu
nubode@NDSUVAX.BITNET

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