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- From: bill.lambdin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Bill Lambdin)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Brain Viruses (PC)
- Message-ID: <0006.9301062041.AA14693@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:53:00 GMT
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- Quoting from Kevin Marcus to All About Re: Brain Viruses (PC) on 12-07-92
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- KM> brain, whatever you wanna call it). It is a VERY old boot sector
- KM> infector (some of the newer varients can infect the MBR). This means
- KM> they infect disks, and not files. It uses some steath techniques, so
- KM> that it hides the it's infection by redirecting calls to read in the
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- I'f I not mistaken. I believe "Pakistani Brain" was the first virus that
- used stealth routines.
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- No-Int (sometimes called Stoned three) is also a stealth boot sector
- virus. However; the stealth routines are quite sophisticated.
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- Bill
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