Re: Viruses in OS/2 HPFS (OS/2)

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1 total messages Started by Vesselin Bontchev Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:53

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Author: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:53

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bjl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Brett J.L. Landry) writes:

> There has been aa lot of talk about OS/2 not being able to be infected
> from regular old DOS boot sector viruses using the HPFS. This is false
> since regular old STONED can infect both logical and physical parttions
> on OS/2 using HPFS.  Why wait for true OS/2 viruses when you can suffer
> from regular DOS viruses.

I don't know what do you call logical and physical partitions on OS/2
using HPFS, but Stoned can infect only one thing - the Master Boot
Record of the hard disk. That is, the sector at track 0, side 0,
sector 1. It can be infected on any IBM PC compatible machine,
regardless whether it runs MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, or whatever.

Some systems (Unix) may become non-bootable after the infection. On
other systems (OS/2) the virus will be unable to spread further, i.e.
to infect diskettes.

Regards,
Vesselin
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