Re: Can such a virus be written .... (PC)

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From: Brian D. Howard
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 17:08

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vanaards@project4.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk (Steven van Aardt) writes:

>  Is it possible to write a PC virus which installs itself whenever
>you place an infected disk in the drive and do a DIR command ?

Yes.

You'd have to change command.com and have a dir.com or dir.bat just
sitting there.  I've actually manually done something like that as a
prank (stay away from me on april 1...)

(You asked merely if it was *possible*.  Now, do you think you've got
something like that going on?)
- --
"Hire the young while they still know everything."

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