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In article <188@complex.complex.is>, frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
> worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:
> 
> >  I have received several requests for me to post this.  It is a copy of
> >some e-mail I received on approximately 10-15-92.  I circulated a few copies
> >around at the time, and most people regarded it as a hoax.
> 
> It is.   There is a virus called Proto-T, but it is just a variant of the
> Civil War II virus, and was detected as such (at least by some anti-virus
> programs such as my own F-PROT) when it was discovered.  The virus found in
> some hacked versions of PkZip is a different one - totally unrelated.
> 


 
Nobody told me that it's already April 1st!
 
From now on it's not a hardware failure. It's the PROTO-T!
YES! A great way for every consultant to squeeze 3-6 hours
of work on EVERY "infected" unit! Fantastic.
 
But seriously guys... unattached file chains on the HD don't
get run. You can't run code out of a modem and you don't have
serial port buffer (I <<WISH>> we did; would have saved tons
of time 7 years back). HD buffer memory gets overwritten each
time a sector is loaded or written. Video memory gets ZERO'D
everytime the card changes mode (although it does represent a
possible, but very tricky, location for viruses).  95% of the
PROTO-T thing is fiction.
 
Aki.
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