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- VIRUS-L Digest Tuesday, 21 Feb 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 52
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- Today's Topics:
- Flu_Shot availability (PC)
- nVIR virus on Mac SE
- Re trusted trojan horse mail
- nVIR virus and suggested remedies (Mac)
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- Date: Sun Feb 19 23:07:53 1989
- From: utoday!greenber@uunet.UU.NET
- Subject: Flu_Shot availability (PC)
-
- To: Matthew Mathai and other FLU_SHOT+ users:
-
- Be advised that I'm now available on the below address and can answer
- any questions regarding the FLU_SHOT+ series of programs.
-
- Ross M. Greenberg
- UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016
- Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438
- uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber PCMagNet: 72241,36
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- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 13:44 EST
- From: STEVEN LINDELL <S_LINDELL@HVRFORD.BITNET>
- Subject: nVIR virus on Mac SE
-
- I have a virus on my Mac SE which installs itself as resource "nVIR"
- in applications. It does not appear to damage documents, and appears
- to be unable to get through locked files. It does damage those
- applications it enters, but not all of them (Resedit OK) others work
- erratically for a while and then won't launch. Telltale signs were
- modification dates on applications just after they launch.
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- If any one knows of this virus, please let me know what would be the
- best way to eradicate it.
-
- P.S. It also modifies some system files possibly (Macromaker, System)?
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- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 16:07:27 est
- From: ellis@morgul.psc.edu (James Ellis)
- Subject: Re trusted trojan horse mail
-
- As others have pointed out, many terminals do support sendline and
- sendpage functions and although some mailers block escape characters,
- not all do. This is also a problem with finger, which can be done
- remotely, and with systems that do not provide adequate protection for
- user's /dev/tty* devices (still the case on many unix systems).
- Unless you know that your terminal or emulator does not support such
- "features", beware.
-
- A common "fix" proposed is to simply not trust mail from someone you
- don't know. But the problem is that such "worm" mail (it is really
- more a worm than a virus) *does* come from someone you know. Since it
- is "you" (or commands from your terminal) causing letters to be
- propogated, the mail looks like it is coming from you. The IBM
- "Christmas Tree Virus" used the victim's personal mail list for more
- targets with a resutling high probability of mail coming from someone
- whom the next user "trusted".
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- This is the same problem as with a biological epidemic, of course,
- until the public becomes aware of it.
-
- James Ellis
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- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 23:12 EST
- From: <E_DAVIES@HVRFORD.BITNET>
- Subject: nVIR virus and suggested remedies (Mac)
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- We here at calm, quiet, Quakerly Haverford have just discovered the
- nVIR virus on almost all of our Macs. As I am relatively new to this
- list (and incredibly anxious to restore calm and quiet to our campus),
- I was wondering if any of you might be able to offer any suggestions
- as to the best strategy for dealing with the nVIR strain. We have so
- far used Interferon 3.0 to identify affected files, although
- Interferon seems to choke on AppleShare volumes (we have two
- AppleShare servers which were hit pretty badly). Would Vaccine or Rx
- work any better? Does anyone have any general info. they could share
- regarding the general characteristics of the nVIR virus? It would be
- nice to know the nature of the beast with which we deal. I would also
- be VERY interested in how other colleges/universities dealt with the
- cleaning of students' disks so as to prevent reinfection of the public
- machines. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to
- provide.
-
- Eric Davies
- Academic Computing Consultant
- Haverford College
- Haverford, PA 19041
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- E_DAVIES@HVRFORD.BITNET
- (215) 896-1110
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