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Article #33259Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info
From: rmf1992
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 19:08
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 19:08
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>/* Written 5:15 pm Oct 12, 1988 by mentat@juniper.uucp in uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
>In article <70.23534FAB@mailcom.UUCP> Jim_Harvey@mailcom.UUCP (Jim Harvey) writes:
>>I've written an application to remove the SCORES virus from infected
>>applications (it's nowhere near as good as others around any more.) I
>>can say with certainty from disassembling the virus and understanding
>>every single line of its object code, that infected applications can be
>>100% brought back to their original state, uninfected and functional.
>
>I, for one, would be very interested in seeing a disassembly of the virus.
>Could you post it to the net or comp.sources.mac (if it's still around)?
>
>
>--
>Robert Dorsett University of Texas at Austin
>
>UUCP: {ames,utah-cs,rutgers}!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!mentat
> mentat@juniper.UUCP
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Not to pick on Robert Dorsett, because I also would be interested in seeing a
disassembly of SCORES. I think it would be VERY DANGEROUS. There are probably
a very large number of people out there who are legitmately curious about how
a virus works in practice, not just in thoery. But then again there are always
the few; think about the person(s) who wrote SCORES, they designed it to target
EDS applications. That took a good working knoweldge of the Mac, and a good
healthy does of grade school morality. Posting a disassembly would only
encourage the more mediorcre programmers to write a virus. Mabey, to make a
name for him/herself, but probably for the thrill of it and mabey in a more
destructive manor. (for the thrill of it Diet Coke :-)).
Bob Frank - struggling undergrad @ UofIllinois
rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!rmf1992 From: rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info Message-ID: <46700075@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 13 Oct 88 19:08:00 GMT References: <6685@ut-emx.UUCP> Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:ut-emx.UUCP:6685:uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:46700075:000:1788 Nf-From: uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!rmf1992 Oct 13 14:08:00 1988