DOS Viruses under HPFS (OS/2)

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1 total messages Started by Bill Lambdin Fri, 15 Jan 1993 23:27

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Author: Bill Lambdin
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 23:27

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Quoting from Chris Antkow to All About DOS Viruses under HPFS (O on 
01-15-93

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

When I test viruses, I configure my CMOS to deactivate the hard drive, 
then I cold boot the computer from a write protected bootable diskette. 
Re-activate the hard drive.

Later i hope to get a laptop for research purposes. You might want to 
think of a dedicated virus test machine yourself.
 
Bill

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