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From: rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info
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Date: 13 Oct 88 19:08:00 GMT
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>/* Written  5:15 pm  Oct 12, 1988 by mentat@juniper.uucp in uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
>In article <70.23534FAB@mailcom.UUCP> Jim_Harvey@mailcom.UUCP (Jim Harvey) writes:
>>I've written an application to remove the SCORES virus from infected 
>>applications (it's nowhere near as good as others around any more.)  I 
>>can say with certainty from disassembling the virus and understanding 
>>every single line of its object code, that infected applications can be 
>>100% brought back to their original state, uninfected and functional.
>
>I, for one, would be very interested in seeing a disassembly of the virus.
>Could you post it to the net or comp.sources.mac (if it's still around)?
>
>
>-- 
>Robert Dorsett                                    University of Texas at Austin
>
>UUCP: {ames,utah-cs,rutgers}!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!mentat
>      mentat@juniper.UUCP
>/* End of text from uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */

Not to pick on Robert Dorsett, because I also would be interested in seeing a
disassembly of SCORES.  I think it would be VERY DANGEROUS.  There are probably
a very large number of people out there who are legitmately curious about how
a virus works in practice, not just in thoery.  But then again there are always
the few; think about the person(s) who wrote SCORES, they designed it to target
EDS applications.  That took a good working knoweldge of the Mac, and a good
healthy does of grade school morality.  Posting a disassembly would only
encourage the more mediorcre programmers to write a virus.  Mabey, to make a
name for him/herself, but probably for the thrill of it and mabey in a more 
destructive manor.                (for the thrill of it Diet Coke :-)).

Bob Frank - struggling undergrad @ UofIllinois
	    rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu