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Article #2852Virus descriptions vs. viruses
From: victor porguen
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:36
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:36
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Writes ..!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta (G. Youngblood): > Look for a file called VSUMX???.zip (or arj or whatever). > It is hyper text of viruses that you can look up infomration > about the stoned virus. Ah... well... actually, I look at it this way: the Stoned virus, if it infects a diskette with a LOT of files on it, MIGHT erase some of the filename entries by displacing the boot sector code into them. That's a few files lost, sort of. The VSUMX??.zip (or arj or whatever) file, on the other hand, will SURELY overwrite about 500 kilobytes of disk space, by taking them over for itself. That's before decompresion. Now, I wonder: which is the lesser evil? (just kidding)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo!vporguen From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Virus descriptions vs. viruses Date: 31 Dec 1992 03:36:27 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1htprrINN2jq@crcnis1.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu