frisk@uunet.UU.NET (Fridrik Skulason) (06/04/89)
Recently I wrote a message, asking for volunteers to test a new TSR
virus protection program. By now they probably have received the
source code and are testing the program. This program is a part of a
protection package, which will be sent to the anti-viral archives when
finished. (By the way, who are the managers of the various archives ?)
Now I have a question:
Does anyone out there know of a package for testing protection
software ? If not, would anybody be interested in creating such a
package ? It would consist of a number of programs, intended to
test various methods of attack. I have written two such programs,
one for attacking the boot sector (in 4 basically different ways),
and the other for attacking .EXE files (using a wide variety of
methods).
I also have a request:
Included in my package is an inoculation program. It is designed
to fight specific BSV, by writing a few bytes to the boot sector,
making the diskette look as if it has already been infected.
Currently the program inoculates against Brain, Ping-Pong and
Marijuana. I do not have the other known BSV (Yale, Den Zuk and
Nichols) in my collection, and I would be very grateful if
somebody could E-Mail me some information on how those viruses
check if the diskette is already infected.
Fridrik Skulason
University of Iceland Computing Services
frisk@rhi.hi.is