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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Viruses in OS/2 HPFS (OS/2)
- Message-ID: <0005.9301051402.AA11929@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:53:08 GMT
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- bjl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Brett J.L. Landry) writes:
-
- > There has been aa lot of talk about OS/2 not being able to be infected
- > from regular old DOS boot sector viruses using the HPFS. This is false
- > since regular old STONED can infect both logical and physical parttions
- > on OS/2 using HPFS. Why wait for true OS/2 viruses when you can suffer
- > from regular DOS viruses.
-
- I don't know what do you call logical and physical partitions on OS/2
- using HPFS, but Stoned can infect only one thing - the Master Boot
- Record of the hard disk. That is, the sector at track 0, side 0,
- sector 1. It can be infected on any IBM PC compatible machine,
- regardless whether it runs MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, or whatever.
-
- Some systems (Unix) may become non-bootable after the infection. On
- other systems (OS/2) the virus will be unable to spread further, i.e.
- to infect diskettes.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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