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Article #375Re: Anyone know ANYTHING about the "Byte Warrior" Virus??
From: Rodney Campbell
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 12:33
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 12:33
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The Byte Warrior virus is another of the bootblock type viruses which writes
itself to the first 2 blocks of the disk if it can (unwriteprotected disk)
It can be seen using a disk editor and the string DASA appears in the
boot block. It doesn't do much initially but after a while it usually
ends up trashing your disk and you get a df1: bad error message.
As for the virus that attaches itself to programs which get
executed - that is the IRQ virus which usually looks at the first command
executed by your startup sequence and infects it if it can. A number
of good checkers are available to combat this. KV check a single file
for the IRQ virus and POPDIR has an IRQ checker to check all files in a
directory.
Hope that helps,
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!elecvax!spinifex!rodneyc From: rodneyc@spinifex.eecs.unsw.oz (Rodney Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Anyone know ANYTHING about the "Byte Warrior" Virus?? Summary: It usually causes a message such as df1: is bad Message-ID: <403@spinifex.eecs.unsw.oz> Date: 5 Jul 89 12:33:40 GMT References: <16922@gryphon.COM> Organization: EE & CS, Uni N.S.W., Sydney, Australia Lines: 23