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- VIRUS-L Digest Sunday, 19 Feb 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 51
-
- Today's Topics:
- MIT's report on the Internet worm (11/88) available
- Mac INIT 10 - a problem?
- New anti-virus group: CoTRA
- Flu_Shot 1.51 now available
-
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- Date: 17 Feb 89 10:00:00 EDT
- From: "HILL" <vishnu@pine.circa.ufl.edu>
- Subject: MIT's report on the Internet worm (11/88) available
-
- The MIT report on last November's Internet worm is available for
- anonymous FTP from pine.circa.ufl.edu (128.227.128.55). If you are on
- SURANET this will probably be faster than other sites.
-
- Les
- CIRCA, University of Florida
- Internet: vishnu@pine.circa.ufl.edu
- BITNET: vishnu@ufpine
-
- [Ed. Thanks, these files are also available on lll-winken.llnl.gov.]
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 17:31:54 EST
- From: engnbsc@buacca.BITNET
- Subject: Mac INIT 10 - a problem?
-
- I'm forwarding this for someone who doesn't subscribe to the list:
-
- Please reply directly to him at:
- engnuyu@buacca.bitnet / engnuyu@buacca.bu.edu
-
-
- - --- Forwarded Message Follows:
-
-
- Virus Rx is picking up INIT 10s. It says that there is "no known
- problem", and most of these are INITs (superclock among others).
-
- Is this a problem? Should I worry?
-
- Stephan Cavarra, engnuyu@buacca.bu.edu / engnuyu@buacca.bitnet
-
- - --- End Included Message.
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- Date: 18-FEB-1989 15:23:40 GMT
- From: BROWNJS@VAXB.ASTON.AC.UK
- Subject: New anti-virus group: CoTRA
-
- The latest issue of New Scientist (Vol 121, No 1652) contains a news
- article entitled 'Virus vigilantes' reporting on the formation of a
- new group of software companies and users, called the Computer Threat
- Research Association (CoTRA). This group intends to "research,
- analyse, publicise and find solutions to threats to the integrity and
- reliability of computer systems".
-
- The group is to be based initially in Britain, but hopes to build
- links with Europe and the rest of the world.
-
- Can anybody out there expand on this?
-
- - -- Jason --
-
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- | Jason Brown JANET : brownjs@uk.ac.aston.vaxb |
- | Internet/ARPAnet: brownjs%vaxb.aston.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu|
- | BITNET/EARN : brownjs@vaxb.aston.ac.uk |
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-
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 14:57 EST
- From: <MATHAIMT@VTCC1.BITNET>
- Subject: Flu_Shot 1.51 now available
-
- Flu_Shot + ver 1.51 is now available from RAMNET BBS. I got my copy in
- the mail because I was a registered user of FSP+ 1.4.
-
- FSP+ v1.51 (and v1.5) doesn't do the CMOS check any more hence that
- sometimes annoying message "CMOS has changed" doesn't pop up from time
- to time. It also has a -W command line option which prevents it from
- triggering every time a file is opened with write access. It still
- protects files from being written to however! According to the update
- posted int the FSP_151 archive some *NASTY* bugs in v 1.4 and earlier
- have been fixed, so v1.4 users please take note.
-
- I also tested v1.51 for the"print.com-TSR" problem reported in an
- earlier issue of this digest. As long as you register print.com as a
- TSR with the T option in the FSP.DAT file, FSP+ 1.51 *DOES NOT* flag
- print.com as an UNAUTHORIZED TSR. (I think the message was referring
- to v 1.5 which I have *NOT* tested. Also, print.com does TSR after it
- has initially been loaded into memory)
-
- Mathew Mathai | I don't work for RAMNET or Ross Greenberg ...
- BITNET: MATHAIMT@VTCC1 | but I whole heartedly support his efforts
- | to rid this world of virus writing SLIME !
-
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