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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Proto-T (Was Re: PKZip 3.05 VIRUS LETTER FROM LAST FALL)
- Message-ID: <4864@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 08:28:11 PST
- References: <1993Jan5.234132.23313@cis.ohio-state.edu> <188@complex.complex.is>
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- In article <188@complex.complex.is>, frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
- > worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:
- >
- > > I have received several requests for me to post this. It is a copy of
- > >some e-mail I received on approximately 10-15-92. I circulated a few copies
- > >around at the time, and most people regarded it as a hoax.
- >
- > It is. There is a virus called Proto-T, but it is just a variant of the
- > Civil War II virus, and was detected as such (at least by some anti-virus
- > programs such as my own F-PROT) when it was discovered. The virus found in
- > some hacked versions of PkZip is a different one - totally unrelated.
- >
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- Nobody told me that it's already April 1st!
-
- From now on it's not a hardware failure. It's the PROTO-T!
- YES! A great way for every consultant to squeeze 3-6 hours
- of work on EVERY "infected" unit! Fantastic.
-
- But seriously guys... unattached file chains on the HD don't
- get run. You can't run code out of a modem and you don't have
- serial port buffer (I <<WISH>> we did; would have saved tons
- of time 7 years back). HD buffer memory gets overwritten each
- time a sector is loaded or written. Video memory gets ZERO'D
- everytime the card changes mode (although it does represent a
- possible, but very tricky, location for viruses). 95% of the
- PROTO-T thing is fiction.
-
- Aki.
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