🚀 go-pugleaf

Reading over two of my recent posts, about the Monkey virus, I realize
one could get the impression I am critical of Padgett Peterson's
"Fixutils" and "Disk Secure" packages.  Not at all!

I still find Disk Secure to be the best, simplest, and cheapest
software way I know of to protect against MBR infectors.  That's why
the University of Alberta uses it in all its "public access" DOS
computer labs.  And that, unfortunately, is why Monkey was written to
by-pass Disk Secure.  Far from a statement against Disk Secure, this
is a lesson on the limitations of any software-based protection
system: a directed attack, however unlikely, is always a possibility.

Similarly FixMBR demonstates an interesting and straightforward way to
recover from almost all MBR viruses.  But not from Monkey, and
presumably once again for the same reason.  :)

Tim.

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  Tim Martin                   *
  Spatial Information Systems  *  "I really don't see how returning
  University of Alberta        *       the product helps me."   
  martin@cs.ualberta.ca        *
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