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- From: tck@bend.ucsd.edu (Kevin Marcus)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Is this a new virus? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0010.9301051858.AA13030@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 07:03:27 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- >tck@fold.ucsd.edu (Kevin Marcus) writes:
- >
- >> I have varients of stoned which copy to 0,0,15, and 0,0,7, as well as a
- >> few other locations. They do not necessarily copy to the same spot.
- >
- >And we have here variants that put the original MBR at 0,0,2 and
- >0,0,8. This is irrelevant. What is rellevant is that the problem with
- >Michelangelo occurs exactly because the "standard" Stoned variant put
- >the original MBR at 0,0,7 - at the same place as Michelangelo, and
- >because the two viruses do not recognize each other.
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- Oh, come on, it is relevant. The original problem: Disinfection of a
- Stoned and MIchelangelo infection. Where they move the orig. MBR is
- quite important, because in one case, it is possible to remove the
- viruses by pulling the original MBR up, and in the other, it is not.
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