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From: Zane Lewis
To: Kenneth B. Mc Cleaft
Subject: Virus Warning!!
KM> People, I dont know if this is for real; but, I just received this
KM> off of fur-net and wanted to pass it along just incase that is it
KM> true.
* Area : EAGLE
* From : Bruce Lane 11-Oct-92 08:28:00
* To : All 12-Oct-92 14:27:16
* Subj.: Virus Warning!!
Heads up, folks! We got a nasty one out there.
[4/4]
From : Tempest
To : All
Subject: **** Warning ****
Date : 03 Oct 92 17:31
I just recieved this from a user on one of my nets. It pertains to
everyone
who runs a computer and modem. A very VERY dangerous virus seems to hav
escaped, and people must be warned about it. Here is the message I
recieved....
-!----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an exact copy of a "Broadcast" letter sent to all members a
affiliates of THIEVCO INC; a group located somewhere in the San Francisc
Bay
Area. While I do not support the general theology of Thievco Inc, I must
applaud thier actions. Thier warnings about a new virus called PROTO-T,
potentially save us computer users possibly thousands of dollars - and
hundreds of man hours.
Here is a copy of the broadcast letter, as received from a friend
at Thievco ...
<<*>> <<*>> <<*>> <<*>> <<*>> <<*>> <<*>>
<<*>>
Retrieved BLUWAV 6921 / THIEV 00621*420 - Node 1:8 Sent T-Tymnet
Date : 9/24/92 11:14pm
To : All Thievco Members, and affil.
Re : PROTO - T
Class : Confidential (go public 9-26)
Dear Members,
At 7:34PM (pst) our attempt to isolate and contain the PROTO - T
virus failed. As we have discovered, PROTO - T has a *VERY* unique
feature, to hide in the RAM of VGA cards, hard disks, and possibly,
in modem buffers. Unfortunaly, we found out the hard way - after it stru
At this time, there is no known defence against this virus, save formatt
your hard/floppy disks - there isn't even a method of detecting it yet..
untill its too late. [ PROTO - T specs listed later ].
Unearthly Vision ( Portland, Oregon ), and Chron ( Alameda, Calif )
were working on isolating the virus when it struck. Over 900 megabytes
of information was lost, of that about 214 megabytes is probably
recoverable.
Action :
Please assist us in implementing this plan, to warn the general pub
Our first priority is our fellow THIEVCO members. Please distribute this
letter to all contacts inside the U.S., upon recipt of this letter.
Please inform the public on 9-26-92. Start warning the elite boards firs
followed by the P.D. boards. Dont bother telling known SPA locals, they
aren't
worth our time.
What is known:
Proto - T was just a rumor, untill it was confirmed a few weeks ago.
Chron, being the most incredible skip-tracer, traced its origins to a
college campus in California. There, it was placed into two files.
The first, is a file called "TEMPLE" - which to our knowledge, has no
legitimate use; it seems to be a dummy file. The other file, was
placed in an unathorized version of PKZip by PKWare ( versions 3.0, and
-
these are not legitimate versions of PKZip! Quite possibly, these versio
of PKZip were created, for the reason of distributing PROTO - T ).
Proto - T is very elusive. There is no program known to detect it.
From what we understand, it will only infect your system if certian
conditions are met. From what we know, it will infect your system only i
you run TEMPLE, or PKZip 3.x after 6:00pm. Even doing that wont nessaral
cause infection - it took 6 days for Chron and Unearthly Vision to becom
infected. Obviously some other criteria must be met.
Upon infection, the virus is written (as un-attached file chains), O
two
parts of a hard disk - each capable of running independently without the
other half.
After infection, the virus seems to be written into the memory or me
routines of a VGA or EGA monitor; or is written into the memory of the h
drive, or quite possibly, into a modem - or COM port. Thus excaping most
any known detection methods.
PROTO - T :
Proto - T when activated, corrupts data on a disk, stops VGA or EGA
from being used ( Thus either defaulting to CGA, or locking up ), and
prohibits memory from being used over 512K.
Known to be put into two files : TEMPLE.EXE ( 14,771 Bytes ) and PKZip 3
(Varries always over 100,000 bytes when zipped). If you see these files
do not get or use them.
Give this letter to all Thievco members and thier contacts, followed by
other boards.
With luck, we can stop the damage before it *REALLY* starts.
THIEVCO INC, San Francisco Bay
Area.
This sounds pretty bad, fellow FurNetters. Please be careful what yo
up/download and unZIP. Current version of PKZip is still 1.10.
Actually, it's 1.95A (Alpha, Still Buggy..) Use it occasionally, when 1.
Won't unzip something.