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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Is this a new virus? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0015.9301062041.AA14693@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:18:57 GMT
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- tck@bend.ucsd.edu (Kevin Marcus) writes:
-
- > >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.
-
- > 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.
-
- That's exactly what I am trying to tell you, but maybe I am not
- expressing myself clearly enough. The Stoned+Michelangelo problem
- occurs exactly because both viruses store the original MBR at ONE AND
- THE SAME PLACE, therefore the original MBR gets lost. Such system
- cannot be disinfected, because there is no original MBR. The only
- solution is to put a new MBR, which the anti-virus program must carry
- with itself. Of course, some care should be taken not to destroy any
- PARTITION TABLE information.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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