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antkow@sis.uucp (Chris Antkow) writes:

> Being a virus researcher myself, I find it sometimes suicidal to test
>out and disassemble new stealth and polymorphic class viruses on my
>DOS based PC. I'm deathly paranoid that it's going to escape on one of
>my floppies and infect the rest of my house... Even though I know my
>ASM a bit better than the average Joe, who knows what might happen.

Well....what you need is a "clean room" - say, a setup like the one I
saw at Symantec - a room full of XTs, ATs etc, and several guys
working full-time in there analysing/testing viruses...and not allowed
to take them out of the room.

Realizing that this might not be practical in your case, I would
suggest a special, dedicated machine, just for running viruses.

If that is too expensive, consider adding a switch to the outside, to
make the disk read-only while you are looking at the viruses.

- -frisk

Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801