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Started by Jeffrey Richard Lamb
Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:59
Help on changing Copy
Author: Jeffrey Richard Lamb
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:59
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:59
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Ok, I know this is going to sound like a strange request so I want to make some disclaimers first. I am not a virus writer. I don't want to kill machines. I'm not trying to write a virus. I made a bet with a friend that the copy command (or any other internal dos command) could be "turned off." What I want to do is simple. I want dos to access a file called "copy.bat" whenever anyone types in a copy command. The problem is that dos always checks for internal commands (copy) first, so dos never even looks at copy.bat, it just declares invalid number of parameters. I'm sure this can be avoided, but how? Again, I know it sounds suspicious. I declare again that I'm not writing any virus programs. My full name is below. As proof of my good intentions (or non-malicious any- way) if you see any new virus programs out that use copy "turn-off" you can blame me and send the police after me. By the way, the bet with my friend came after an argument of how to turn off external commands (rename them, hide then, and replace with a file of the same name). Reply by e-mail if that's ok. Thanks in advance. Jeff R. Lamb at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) e-mail jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu Money can't buy you poverty. -- H. Ross Perot | All his life he was surrounded | Jeff R. Lamb for President | by people who didn't know what | Midnight Arrow of the United | to do, while he had always | Champion of Reality States in '96 | known. -Ayn Rand | (jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu)
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