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- 40Hex Volume 1 Issue 2 0002
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- THE SAFE WAY TO EXPERIMENT WITH VIRUSES
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- The problem with fooling around with viruses is that you never know
- what damage there going to do to your hard disk. I have a couple of
- so called viruses that when run, automatically screw up the FAT on
- all the disks in the system. Well, theres a way around getting the
- shaft from these programs, and also to experiment with legitament
- viruses.
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- The key is the DOS utitlity SUBST, make this batch file, and copy it
- to a floppy.
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- @echo off
- subst d: a:\
- subst c: a:\
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- What this will do is send any access to disks C: and D: (the two
- hard disks in my case) to drive A: So the only damage inflicted
- will be to the floppy in A:
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- No programs can access you hard disk when this command is issued. I
- use it all the time and as of now it has proved 100% safe.
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- Oh yeah, if you dont feel like distroying a floppy every time you
- mess with a virus, you can do this teqnique from a RAM disk.
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- Have fun...
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- HR
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