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Article #7032Re: Viruses
From: BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 20:02
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 20:02
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In article <2900@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes: >In article <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes: > > | I have heard of things called antibodies, that sit in > | your boot sector and do something like flash the screen . The idea > | being that if a virus hits and writes over the antibody, you will > | notice the screen not flashing. > >This is the first I have heard of this idea, and I find it interesting. >But I think it would drive me crazy. > >Does anyone have experience with something like this? > Not yet but an offshoot idea from that one is to make a small accessory that when anything is written to the boot sector of the A or B disk drive the screen flashes and the info or the Sector number can be display momentarily, if this occurs and option to immunize the disk comes up and allows you to clear away a virus. I have started to work on such a program already in a different manor to protect my bbs from Back doors. If you want ill do this simple program on the side as I work on the Back door Killer. Dave Tomesch, Super BBS (519) 749-1206, Kwest Co-Chairman, StarTrak Inc. " Never say Never"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!econadm5 From: econadm5@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Viruses Keywords: virus, antibody Message-ID: <619@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 20:02:19 GMT References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2900@water.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: econadm5@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BENTLEY BH - ECONOMICS) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24