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VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 26 Jun 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 141
Today's Topics:
Re: The strange story of the WordPerfect virus (PC)
Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)
Re: Virus policy
Apple II anti-viral archives
IBMPC anti-viral archives
Atari ST anti-viral archives
Amiga anti-viral archives
Introduction to the anti-viral archives
[Ed. I'm back... As I said before, my new email address is krvw@sei.cmu.edu]
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 14:34:59 -0400
From: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (greg Nowak)
Subject: Re: The strange story of the WordPerfect virus (PC)
Thanks for all your good work in studying the WordPerfect virus. I
haven't yett been infected by it, but since I am a WordPerfect 4.2
user, I suspect that I might be someday. Could you please send me a
uuencoded copy of the virus-eradication program you mentioned? many
thanks!
...!rutgers!phoenix.princeton.edu!greg
Greg Nowak/Phoenix Gang/Princeton NJ 08540
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 17:25:58 PDT
From: rtc@bally.Bally.COM (Reynolds Cafferata)
Subject: Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)
(C)Brain infected many disks at the George Washington University. It is
a product of some guy in Pakistan. The only saving grace to this virus
is that it changes the volume name, as you must have noticed when it
infects a disk. The virus replaces command.com with a new version that
is stored in some bad sectors on the disk. THe new command.com has two
nasty functions. First, when ever the disk is accessed, it checks to
see if the disk being accessed is infected. If it isn't then it infects
that disk. Second, it will periodically add more bad sectors to disks.
The virus can only be loaded by booting the computer with an infected
disk. It becomes a big problem in environments were people sit down
and use already booted machines. A printer pc was the main distributor
of the virus at GWU. The version we faced did not seem to affect hard
disks.
The simplest cure we found was to boot a system with a disk that we were
positive was not infected, and then read the first sector off of that disk
with a block & track editor. Finally, write the good 1st sector onto the
infected disk. Be sure to write a booting sector to boot disks and
non-booting to non-booting disks. As for the bad sectors containing the
command.com substitute, they are harmless without the companion boot
sector and are best just left alone.
This virus cost many of my friends a lot of data--we would love to meet
the guy who wrote it in some dark alley. In any event, I hope this posting
is helpful.
Reyonlds Cafferata
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 18:19 PDT
From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Subject: Re: Virus policy
Hi margie,
having dealt with this problem as a consultant at a couple of
silicon valley corps I have just one issue to raise from your article.
In most cases the person who is the human causative agent in the
spread of an infection is in most cases totally unaware that some of
the disk that he/she/it is using are infected... thus it is kind of
hard to discipline that person... what could be done instead is to set
up a test cpu that the software can be run on first to attempt to
detect evidence of infectious agents(of course if the virus in
question has a sufficiently long pre-trigger level even that may not
be sufficient) (n.b. a pre-trigger is used in this context to describe
an interval that the virus will not manifest its infectious
capability)
kelly goen
CSS Inc.
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Date: 22 Jun 89 12:23:53 GMT
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Subject: Apple II anti-viral archives
# Anti-viral archive sites for the Apple II types...
# Listing of 22 June 1989
brownvm.bitnet
Chris Chung <chris@brownvm.bitnet>
Access is through LISTSERV, using SEND, TELL and MAIL commands.
Files are stored as
apple2-l xx-xxxxx
where the x's are the file number.
cs.hw.ac.uk
Dave Ferbrache <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
NIFTP from JANET sites, login as "guest".
Electronic mail to <info-server@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
Main access is through mail server.
The master index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: virus
topic: index
The Apple II index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: apple
topic: index
For further details send a message with the text
help
The administrative address is <infoadm@cs.hw.ac.uk>
pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk
Steve Jenkins <pdsoft@pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk>
I'm not sure of access, but you Brits ought to know by now. :-)
- --
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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Date: 22 Jun 89 12:25:23 GMT
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Subject: IBMPC anti-viral archives
# Anti-viral archive sites catering to the IBMPC crowd...
# Listing of 22 June 1989
cs.hw.ac.uk
Dave Ferbrache <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
NIFTP from JANET sites, login as "guest".
Electronic mail to <info-server@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
Main access is through mail server.
The master index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: virus
topic: index
The IBMPC index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: ibmpc
topic: index
For further details send a message with the text
help
The administrative address is <infoadm@cs.hw.ac.uk>
ms.uky.edu
Daniel Chaney <chaney@ms.uky.edu>
This site can be reached through anonymous ftp.
The IBMPC anti-viral archives can be found in /pub/msdos/AntiVirus.
The IP address is 128.163.128.6.
pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk
Steve Jenkins <pdsoft@pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk>
I'm not sure of access, but you Brits ought to know by now. :-)
- --
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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Date: 22 Jun 89 12:24:35 GMT
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Subject: Atari ST anti-viral archives
# Anti-viral archive sites for the Atarians...
# Listing of 22 June 1989
cs.hw.ac.uk
Dave Ferbrache <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
NIFTP from JANET sites, login as "guest".
Electronic mail to <info-server@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
Main access is through mail server.
The master index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: virus
topic: index
The Atari ST index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: atari
topic: index
For further details send a message with the text
help
The administrative address is <infoadm@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk
Steve Jenkins <pdsoft@pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk>
I'm not sure of access, but you Brits ought to know by now. :-)
ssyx.ucsc.edu
Steve Grimm <koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu>
Access to the archives is through FTP or mail server.
With ftp, look in the directory /pub/virus.
The IP address is 128.114.133.1.
For instructions on the mail-based archiver server, send
help
to <archive-server@ssyx.ucsc.edu>.
- --
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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Date: 22 Jun 89 12:23:16 GMT
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Subject: Amiga anti-viral archives
# Anti-viral archive sites for the Amigoids...
# Listing of 22 June 1989
cs.hw.ac.uk
Dave Ferbrache <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
NIFTP from JANET sites, login as "guest".
Electronic mail to <info-server@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
Main access is through mail server.
The master index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: virus
topic: index
The Amiga index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
request: amiga
topic: index
For further details send a message with the text
help
The administrative address is <infoadm@cs.hw.ac.uk>
ms.uky.edu
Sean Casey <sean@ms.uky.edu>
Access is through anonymous ftp.
The Amiga anti-viral archives can be found in /pub/amiga/Antivirus.
The IP address is 128.163.128.6.
pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk
Steve Jenkins <pdsoft@pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk>
I'm not sure of access, but you Brits ought to know by now. :-)
uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Lionel Hummel <hummel@cs.uiuc.edu>
Currently, the anti-viral archives don't have a home of their own.
There is a lot of stuff to be found throughout the Fish collection.
The IP address is 128.174.5.54.
- --
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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Date: 22 Jun 89 12:22:14 GMT
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Subject: Introduction to the anti-viral archives
# Introduction to the Anti-viral archives...
# Listing of 22 June 1989
This posting is the introduction to the "official" anti-viral archives
of virus-l/comp.virus. With the generous cooperation of many sites
throughout the world, we are attempting to make available to all the
most recent news and programs for dealing with the virus problem.
Currently we have sites for Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, IBMPC and
Macintosh microcomputers, as well as sites carrying research papers
and reports of general interest. We don't yet have a site dedicated
to the "big boys", but are on the look. There have been nibbles.
If you have general questions regarding the archives, you can send
them to this list or to me. I'll do my best to help. If you have
an archive site and would like to volunteer your site (and are in
a position to do so! :-), send me a message. Also, if you have a
submission for the archives, you can send it to me or to one of the
persons in charge of the relevant sites.
With this update I'd like to welcome two new sites. Mac folks
probably are already familiar with sumex. Now it has been granted
"official" status. :-) Another new site is unm, which provides
ethics related papers (university policies, state laws, etc.).
Give it a look!
If you have any corrections to the lists, please let me know.
- --
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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