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- From: rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (js [schwobby])
- Subject: virus
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.232806.721@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Summary: virus
- Keywords: virus
- Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:28:06 GMT
- Lines: 75
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- Hi netters.
-
-
- FIRST:
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- If I start XTGOLD by clicking on an ICON and from there I
- started McAffees "SCAN" it will display the message:
- Shut down system immediately, you`ve got the stoned vius
- active in memory.......
-
- Well, I kept cool and started a DOS session and started from
- there XTGOLD and then started "SCAN" (the same programs)
- it was clean.
-
- So I started another DOS session and started "SCAN" directly
- not using XTGOLD it was clean.
-
- I thought the session running XTGOLD had a bug. So I shut it down.
- Restarted it by clicking at the icon and ran "SCAN" form there again.
- Again the message: Shut down immediately....
-
-
- So I started again the SAME XTGOLD out of a DOS session and ran scan
- from that XTGOLD, well it told me it was clean.
-
-
- So I started the BETA version of SCAN_OS2 and it told me its clean...
-
-
- So I started PLAIN VANILLA DOS and ran scan: everything is fine.
-
-
-
- So why does a virus message come up if I start SCAN using XTGOLD when
- I start the XTGOLD program using an ICON but NOT when I start it using
- a DOS session and run XTGOLD from there?
-
- ANY IDEA?????????????
-
-
-
-
- SECOND:
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- A friend of mine formatted a disk in school and copied his work onto
- that. Then he went to his home machine and copied his work onto that
- machine using DOS.
-
- Well later on he found out he`s got the "MICHELANGELO" virus.
- Well you know all what that one does.........................
-
-
- THE DISK CONTAINED NO EXECUTABLES ONLY C-SOURCE AND TEXT FILES.
- ALL HIS PARTITIONS HAD THE VIRUS AND ONE PARTITION GOT DELETED.
- EVEN THE OS2 PARTITON ON HIS MACHINE WAS INFECTED.
-
-
- How about that?????
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-
-
- regards
- Jobst
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- --
- jobst@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au | rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
- Jobst Schmalenbach 19 York Street, Sth Caulfield, 3162, Australia, 6-3-5237348
- ..................Perfection means, that there is nothing left to take away.
-