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- VIRUS-L Digest Friday, 4 Aug 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 168
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- Israeli boot viruses; New UnVirus (PC)
- New FTP source for anti-virals (PC) - Internet access required
- IBM Australian/Stoned Virus (PC)
- Re: viruses that reprogram ANSI keys
- Re: Shareware? Hmm... (Mac)
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 17:07:48 +0300
- From: Y. Radai <RADAI1@HBUNOS.BITNET>
- Subject: Israeli boot viruses; New UnVirus (PC)
-
- Israeli boot-sector viruses
- ---------------------------
- At least two boot-sector viruses were discovered in Israel recently.
- One, which hooks interrupt 17h and causes letters sent to the printer
- to be replaced by similar sounding ones, was reported by Yair Gany and
- by myself in VIRUS-L at the end of June. I referred to it then as the
- "Mistake" virus, but I now prefer the name "Typo".
- Another virus, mentioned by John McAfee a few days ago, was de-
- scribed only as being a boot-sector virus discovered in Israel; he
- suggested calling it the "Israeli Boot" virus since he thought that no
- such viruses had been reported from Israel previously. But since the
- Typo is also a boot-sector virus, John's suggestion is inappropriate.
- I have not yet seen the new virus in action, but according to info
- sent me by Yuval Tal, it causes letters on the screen to fall. (There
- are two other viruses which fit this description: the Cascade/Autumn/
- Blackjack virus and the Traceback virus, but they infect files, not
- boot sectors.) I suggest we call it the Swap virus, since the words
- SWAP VIRUS FAT12 appear in the modified boot sector.
-
- New version of UNVIRUS
- ----------------------
-
- A few weeks ago I offered to send the virus-eradicating program
- UNVIRUS to anyone who wanted it. It has now been updated to eradicate
- many more viruses. I have sent a package UNVIR6.ARC to Keith Petersen
- for uploading to the SIMTEL20 archive. It consists of the following
- three files:
-
- UNVIR6.DOC Instructions for use of the following two programs.
-
- UNVIRUS.EXE Eradicates Israeli (2 strains), Ping-Pong, Brain, Typo,
- (Vers. 6) April-1-Com, April-1-Exe.
-
- IMMUNE.EXE Prevents infection by Israeli and April-1 viruses and
- (Vers. 5) notifies of presence in RAM of any boot-sector virus.
-
- The authors (Yuval Rakavy and Omri Mann) plan to extend UNVIRUS to
- many more viruses in the near$future, but they always give priority to
- those which have appeared in Israel. The next virus on the list will
- evidently be the Swap virus.
-
- Y. Radai
- Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
-
- P.S. Please do not send requests for UNVIR6 to me. If it is not
- yet on SIMTEL20 it soon will be.
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 12:15:52 -0500
- From: kichler@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Charles Kichler)
- Subject: New FTP source for anti-virals (PC) - Internet access required
-
- The following files dealing with computer viruses are now available by
- anonymous ftp (file transfer protocol) from 'hotel.cis.ksu.edu' [Ed.
- IP number is 129.130.10.12] located in Computer Science Dept. at
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. The files have been and will
- be collected in the future from reliable sources, although no warranty
- is implied or stated. I will attempt to update the files as often as
- possible. If anyone becomes aware of new updates or new anti-viral
- programs, let me know. All files are in the /ftp/pub/Virus-L
- sub-directory.
-
- ./ DETECT2.ARC.1 GREENBRG.ARC.1 VACCINE.ARC.1
- ../ DIRTYDZ9.ARC.1 IBMPAPER.ARC.1 VACCINEA.ARC.1
- 00-Index.doc DPROT102.ARC.1 IBMPROT.DOC.1 VACI13.ARC.1
- ALERT13U.ARC.1 DPROTECT.ARC.1 INOCULAT.ARC.1 VCHECK11.ARC.1
- BOMBCHEK.ARC.1 DPROTECT.CRC.1 MD40.ARC.1 VDETECT.ARC.1
- BOMBSQAD.ARC.1 DVIR1701.EXE.1 NOVIRUS.ARC.1 VIRUS.ARC.1
- CAWARE.ARC.1 EARLY.ARC.1 PROVECRC.ARC.1 VIRUSCK.ARC.1
- CHECK-OS.ARC.1 EPW.ARC.1 READ.ME.FIRST VIRUSGRD.ARC.1
- CHK4BOMB.ARC.1 F-PROT.ARC.1 SCANV30.ARC.1 pk36.exe
- CHKLHARC.ARC.1 FILE-CRC.ARC.2 SENTRY02.ARC.1 pk361.exe
- CHKSUM.ARC.1 FILECRC.ARC.2 SYSCHK1.ARC.1 uu213.arc
- CHKUP36.ARC.1 FILETEST.ARC.1 TRAPDISK.ARC.1
- CONDOM.ARC.1 FIND1701.ARC.1 TROJ2.ARC.1
- DELOUSE1.ARC.1 FSP_16.ARC.1 UNVIR6.ARC.1
-
- The current list only includes programs for MS/PC-DOS computers. I will
- continue to expand the collection to include some worthwhile textual
- documents and possible programs for other machines and operating systems.
-
- The procedure is to first ftp to the hotel.cis.ksu.edu. [Ed. type:
- ftp hotel.cis.ksu.edu (or ftp 129.130.10.12). Enter "anonymous"
- (without the quotes) as a username and "your id" as a password.] Then
- use 'cd pub/Virus-L'. Next get the files you would like. You will
- need the 'pk361.exe' to expand the ARChived programs. Be sure to
- place ftp in a binary or tenex mode [Ed. type "bin" at ftp> prompt].
- Please note that the highly recommended VirusScan program
- (SCANV30.ARC.1) is available.
-
- If there are any questions, send mail to me and I will make every effort
- to help you as soon as time allows.
-
- [Ed. Sorry for all the editorial comments... And thank you for all of
- your efforts, Chuck!]
-
- Charles "chuck" E. Kichler, Into. to PC Instructor/Co-ordinator
- Computer & Info. Science Kansas State Univ. * Yesterday,
- Internet: kichler@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu | I knew the answers.
- BITNET: kichler@ksuvax1.bitnet * Today,
- UUCP: {rutgers,texbell}!ksuvax1!kichler | they changed the answers.
-
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-
- Date: 04 Aug 89 07:35:42 -0100
- From: Jeff Raynor <raynor@rzsin.sin.ch>
- Subject: IBM Australian/Stoned Virus (PC)
-
- One of my colleagues has just become infected with the
- "Stoned/Australian" virus and contacted me for help. I have
- searched through my VIRUS-L archives for information.
-
- There seems little specific details of what part of the hard
- disk it infects, nor how to remove it. The best information was
- on 8-May-89 from Alan_J_Roberts/Jim Goodwin:
- >..this virus stores itself between the partition table and the
- > first partition.
-
- According to Norton Utilities, Absolute sector Side 0, Cylinder
- 0, Sector 1 is my partition table, while Sector 2 is the start of
- my DOS partition. Where is the virus supposed to reside? at the
- end of the 1st sector, or is there an error in my sector
- numbering?
-
- There is further mention that SYS fails to remove the virus (I
- can confirm that), but recommends MDISK. I have downloaded the
- <MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO>MD40.ARC from Simtel, but find that it is DOS
- version specific, MD40 is for DOS 4.0 only. In this case, I need
- MD32, but would like MD30 and MD33 as we run 3.1 and 3.3 here. I
- would also like to see a DOS independent algorithm to remove the
- virus manually using DEBUG low-level read/writes or a Disk
- editor.
-
- Thanks for your help
- Jeff Raynor
-
- EARN: RAYNOR@RZSIN.SIN.CH
- Post: Paul Scherrer Institut, Badenerstrasse 569,
- 8048 Zurich, Switzerland.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 03 Aug 89 22:18:25 +0000
- From: hutto@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Jon Hutto)
- Subject: Re: viruses that reprogram ANSI keys
-
-
- They don't usually harm people using communications softwares as much as
- it does BBS's, because the sequences are set for only certain directories,
- and files.
-
- IBM's ANSI.SYS doesn't let you filter them out eithere. There are some
- ANSI substitutes that do. Such as NANSI, and PC-Mag had one in an issue
- called ANSI.COM.
-
-
- - --
- - --
- Jon Hutto PC-Tech BBS (214)271-8899 2400 baud
- USENET: {ames, texbell, rutgers, portal}!attctc!hutto
- INTERNET: hutto@attctc.dallas.tx.us or attctc!hutto@ames.arc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 08:21:33 -0400
- From: "W. K. Bill Gorman" <34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Shareware? Hmm... (Mac)
-
- Yeah, I know - wrong list, but...
-
- Wouldn't it be interesting if others, say auto dealers, took
- this same position,i.e., since one has the use of a vehicle purchased from
- them, kick in the difference in price between, say, the '89 and '90 models?
- Yeow!!! :-)
-
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