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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.170227.7039@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <1993Jan5.153018.18935@nastar.uucp> <oV93wB1w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:02:27 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <oV93wB1w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- >phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >
- >| My point is that you do not necessarily know which file is the marker.
- >
- >The virus knows which file it is because it was installed by the Install
- >program that came with the virus when you received it.
-
- It is a VIRUS. What manual? When did I receive it?
-
- >| I'm concerned about a file that was compressed as it was put on disk, and now
- >| may not be uncompressed.
- >
- >As has been remarked on already, the compressed file is no more than a
- >self-extracting archive (such as LZExe and PKLite might create).
-
- Agreed. I have already been shown that this is the case for the described BCV.
-
- >Those are two different questions -
- >
- > 1. How do I remove compression from a file which has been compressed?
- >
- > A. Not sure you would ever want to do this.... ever looked at all
- > those utility file executables you've downloaded in the past?
- > Many more are compressed than you realize!
-
- Not an answer. I decide that the executables are not compressable enough to
- warrant the delay in uncompressing them, running them, and recompressing them.
- I decide to install a compressing disk instead, and compress all files. I
- want to remove all infection from the files.
-
- > 2. How do I get rid of the virus?
- >
- > A. Delete the marker file - either by a normal dos DEL VIRUSOK!.MRK
- > or by running a de-install program. Such a de-install program
- > could also remove compression as desired.
-
- Deleting the marker only stops compression. If the marker file appears again,
- compression resumes.
-
- A de-install program? It's a virus - where does this de-install come from?
-
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- Pete Hardie: phardie@nastar (voice) (404) 497-0101
- Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Duluth GA
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