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Article #5168Viruses 4096 and 1260 on BBS (PC)
From: GEORGE SVETLICHNY
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 02:57
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 02:57
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In Virus-L v3 issue31, ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet) writes
concerning the 4096 and 1260 viruses:
>John McAfee writes:
>: The strangest part of the virus is that it is also able to
>:trap all other disk reads and writes, and whenever an infected file is
>:accessed by any program, the virus performs a disinfection of the
>:program on the fly.
> infected file?
>
>As a BBS sysop, I find this a particularly amusing feature: it assures
>my users that anything downloaded from my BBS is not infected with
>this class of virus! The concept of BBS's as *the safest* source of
>software (at least in this one regard) is rather amusing.
What David forgets to mention is that the BBS is the safest source of
virus-free files *as long as the BBS is infected* with these viruses.
Will Sysops now start deliberately infecting their boards with these
viruses so as to assure the users clean files? Is your BBS infected,
Dave? ;-)
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Department of Mathematics |
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