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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Invalid Boot Sectors (PC)
- Message-ID: <0008.9301071651.AA16031@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 09:06:21 GMT
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- riordan@tmxmelb.mhs.oz.au (Roger Riordan) writes:
-
- >It appears the original message got lost, but the gist was that,
- >IN THEORY, it is possible to write a BS virus which is invisible
- >on an infected PC, but impossible to detect on an uninfected PC
- >with any existing scanner because DOS will crash if any attempt is
- >made to access an infected disk.
-
- well, only if the scanner uses int 21H/25H/26H to access the disk. If it uses
- int 13H to access the disk the disk can be read no matter what data is in the
- boot sector.
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- - -frisk
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