davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/26/89)
Do scanning programs (in particular scanv45) check video memory for a virus? I once developed a program which installed itself in the 2nd page of video memory because there was nowhere else for it. Not a virus, just a fix for some BIOS bugs, but someone else could hide a virus there if they were so inclined. Very little software ever uses any page but the first. Oh, if the video pages were swapped and then output to the serial port was done, the display was really pretty! - -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon