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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Information on "new" viruses wanted
Keywords: Virus SystemZ North_Star Byte_Warrior Revenge Obelisk
Message-ID: <21867@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 88 01:23:40 GMT
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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I am about to write a followup article for the AmIcon newsletter, about
viruses.  I have seen several new names, but have not seen these viruses.  I
know how the Byte Warrior works, but not about how the other new ones work.

In the last two weeks, I have seen mentioned System Z, North Star, Byte
Warrior, Revenge and Obelisk.  I have not _seen_ any of them.  Once again,
I make a plea to the 'Net to send me uuencoded bootblocks, either raw, 1024
byte files, or ones made with the program "Blocker."  I would like to describe
how these new viruses work in my article, lest some neophyte user confuses the
actions of a virus with bad hardware/software.

Thanks,
-ethan




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