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From: mcvax!rhi.hi.is!frisk@uunet.UU.NET (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Protection Software (PC)
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Date: 4 Jun 89 14:18:20 GMT
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Recently I wrote a message, asking for volunteers to test a new TSR
virus protection program. By now they probably have received the
source code and are testing the program. This program is a part of a
protection package, which will be sent to the anti-viral archives when
finished. (By the way, who are the managers of the various archives ?)

Now I have a question:

    Does anyone out there know of a package for testing protection
    software ?  If not, would anybody be interested in creating such a
    package ? It would consist of a number of programs, intended to
    test various methods of attack. I have written two such programs,
    one for attacking the boot sector (in 4 basically different ways),
    and the other for attacking .EXE files (using a wide variety of
    methods).

I also have a request:

    Included in my package is an inoculation program. It is designed
    to fight specific BSV, by writing a few bytes to the boot sector,
    making the diskette look as if it has already been infected.
    Currently the program inoculates against Brain, Ping-Pong and
    Marijuana. I do not have the other known BSV (Yale, Den Zuk and
    Nichols) in my collection, and I would be very grateful if
    somebody could E-Mail me some information on how those viruses
    check if the diskette is already infected.

	Fridrik Skulason
	University of Iceland Computing Services

	frisk@rhi.hi.is