Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!ewiles
From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.3, resident, re-boot
Summary: Another virus mechanism... :-(
Message-ID: <970@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 15:24:28 GMT
References: <1101@inria.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <1101@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:
>	2)We have something named ROMTags, that allow us to execute some
>code during the boot process, although it is not really documented :-).
>So we may write some code that will be executed by the strap module

Woooonnnnddeerrrfullll!  Now there's a way to attach viri to the boot code
that won't even break the boot!  *Just* what we need! :-(

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