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- From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Viruses (OS/2)
- Message-ID: <0013.9212141513.AA07337@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 9 Dec 92 18:33:20 GMT
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- > From: William Webber <webbew@aron01.gs.com>
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- > Does anybody have any information about OS/2 viruses.
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- There are currently no known viruses that run under native OS/2.
- However, OS/2 DOS sessions are sufficiently compatible that many DOS
- viruses function normally there. So if your machine has DOS sessions,
- you may get and spread DOS viruses. Even if your machine doesn't have
- DOS sessions, it might inadvertantly serve as a vector for a DOS
- virus, by transporting an infected DOS program, or an OS/2 program
- with an infected OS/2 "fork" (the code that just prints "This program
- requires OS/2" or whatever). Also, an OS/2 machine can become
- infected with a boot-record-infecting virus, since they are basically
- operating-system-independant (they run before OS/2 is loaded). For
- technical reasons, existing boot infectors will not spread further
- from an infected OS/2 system, but you still don't want the virus
- around...
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