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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: <0002.9301062041.AA14693@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:50:52 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr) writes:
-
- > For one thing, if a boot sector virus infects your system on start up,
- > it won't survive the OS/2 startup process. You may get the "Your
- > computer is stoned!" message, since this is displayed (randomly
- > approximately one out of every eight times in many cases) before the
- > operating system is loaded. HOWEVER, OS/2's own floppy disk device
-
- A minor nit picking - Stoned displays the message only when you are
- booting from a floppy. It is unlikely that OS/2 will be often booted
- from a floppy...
-
- > In summary, the worst you can expect is your system simply not
- > working. An infected OS/2 system generally won't infect new floppy
- > disks unless you use the special "DOS from Drive A" sessions with an
- > infected boot floppy.
-
- There is one more danger. If the virus is Michelangelo (which -is- a
- Stoned-like virus; it is even a Stoned variant) and the current date
- is March 6 - bye, bye hard disk, regardless of the operating system
- installed on it... :-)
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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