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From: jerryk@pro-tcc.cts.com (Jerry E. Kindall)
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Subject: Re: Lode Runner
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Date: 22 Dec 89 02:27:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

The Lode Runner (sic) virus (really called LOAD Runner) is a harmless virus
that only affects block zero on your disks.  It originated in France and was
reportedly written by a guy who calls himself CAPSLOCK.  Jay Jennings (an A2
sysop on GEnie) has actually talked to this character via Minitel, the French
online service, and reports that the virus does no damage to any files on your
disks, it just eradicates the boot block when it "goes off".  Evidently the
guy wrote it just to see how far it would spread.

Photonix doesn't run on a ROM 3 GS.  It has nothing to do with how much RAM
you have (you have enough); evidently the program (and Nucleus as well) calls
some udocumented entry points in the ROM.

By the way, speculating that the FTA folks created the virus just because
both the FTA and this CAPSLOCK guy are French may be a fallacy.  They may know
CAPSLOCK, or they may not -- France is a big country.  (Well, they probably
know him now that he's got Load Runner out there, and has made a name for
himself, so to speak.)
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