craparotta@kyoa.DEC.COM (Physical T5--Virtual T7) (08/07/88)
>One of the most devious virus attempts I have seen is a 'virus >eliminator' that supposedly looked for CyberAIDS (supposedly >written by Tom E. Hawk) in SYS files and 'destroyed' it. Well, >a friend and I tried it on a backup copy of ProTERM which we >obviously knew was NOT contaminated. When the program came up >with a 'this disk is contaminated, file PRODOS has been cured' or >something to that effect, we became curious. **** The program >itself installed CyberAIDS in the PRODOS file. Quite nasty, >eh? I suggest writing thy own virus debuggers!********* Clint Fleckenstein ("SpyroGyra") NU132271@NDSUVM1.BITNET 45% of all statistics are made up. If you all look at the last sentence, it states that the Program itself installed the VIRUS. I'd interpet that itself as a Virus... If you don't like my interpetation, tough.. That's what makes the World go round... Joe discalimer: The opinions expressed are my own.. They may not be right all the time, but who's perfect...