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- VIRUS-L Digest Thursday, 30 Mar 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 77
-
- Today's Topics:
- several reports available via anonymous FTP
- Anti viral software and known viruses
- Arcmaster: here is the explanation (PC)
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- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:02:38 EST
- From: luken@ubu.cc.lehigh.edu (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
- Subject: several reports available via anonymous FTP
-
- Over the last couple of weeks, I've received several technical reports
- from various people. I'd like to announce their availability.
- Currently, they're only available via anonymous FTP from
- lll-winken.llnl.gov, but I hope to have them on our LISTSERV shortly,
- for BITNET users (FTP is for Internet users only).
-
- Available are:
-
- Coping With Computer Viruses and Related Problems
- by David M. Chess and Steve R. White
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- filename: ibm.paper
-
- Net Hormones: Part 1
- Infection Control Assuming Cooperation Among Computers
- by David S. Stodolsky, PhD.
- filename: net.hormones
-
- Virus 101 - Chapters 1,2,3 (would someone please send me chapter 4?)
- by George Woodside
- filenames: virus101.1, virus101.2, virus101.3
-
- These files are all in the ~ftp/virus-l/docs directory on
- lll-winken.llnl.gov.
-
- Special thanks to all those who worked on these documents! Your
- efforts are *greatly* appreciated!
-
- Enjoy,
-
- Ken
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- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 16:22:41 BST
- From: David.J.Ferbrache <davidf@CS.HW.AC.UK>
- Subject: Anti viral software and known viruses
-
- A quick request, as you may know Jim Wright's in the process of trying
- to establish a network of co-operating server sites each of which are
- prepared to create a directory of anti-viral software for one or
- machine types.
-
- Each server site would then share anti-viral software, with regular
- notices of newly available software, index lists and note of the
- methods of obtaining software being published on the virus lists, and
- probably on the comp.sys groups.
-
- Anyhow, now the request, I would be very grateful for details of where
- the following anti-viral programs can be obtained, preferably from an
- email based server :-
-
- IBM PC
-
- Cop command obfuscation processor
- Ice intrusion countermeasure electronics (Cyberpunk anyone?)
- Ifcrc CRC checker
- Novirus file size monitor
- Trojan stop disk request interceptor
- Xficheck crc and file attribute checker
-
- MAC
-
- Agar petri dish for viruses
- Nomad, nVIR weapons, nVIR assassin
-
- Amiga
-
- clkdoctor, killvirus, sentry, viewboot, protection, tcell
-
- I will be publishing a list of known viruses in mid-April together
- with reviews of known protective software, the provisional virus list
- now includes 11 IBM PC reported strains:
-
- Lehigh (2 variants),
- Brain (alias: Lahore, Pakastani; numerous variants),
- Italian (alias: Bouncing Ball, Ping Pong),
- Yale (relationship with Alameda virus to be established)
- Alameda (alias: Merritt)
- Austrian (alias: 648, Vienna),
- New Zealand (alias: Stoned),
- Cascade(alias: second austrian, blackjack, 1701, 1704),
- Friday 13th (alias: 1808, 1813, 1792, Israeli, Hebrew University, PLO,
- sUMsDos; also the sURIV 3.01 variant)
- April 1st (2 strains sURIV 1.01, sURIV 2.01)
- Dbase (based on Ross's recent report, awaiting confirmation)
-
- Hmm, two basic viruses appearing in Computer viruses: a high
- tech disease, plus two other viruses developed as personal projects by
- various people and never release (thank goodness!).
-
- For the Mac, 7 strains:
- MacMag (alias: Peace, Drew),
- nVIR (4 variants: nVIR A, nVIR B, Hpat and AIDS)
- Scores (alias: Vult),
- INIT 29,
- Anti,
- 2 hypertext viruses: Dukakis, Hypertext avenger (Don't know
- much about this, only going by one of Alan Solomon's papers)
-
- For the Amiga, 9 strains (including a few anti-virus viruses):
- Swiss crackers association, IRQ, Byte Bandit, Byte Warrior,
- Revenge, Obelisk softworks crew,
- [ North Star, Pentagon Circle, SystemZ - anti-viruses]
-
- For the Atari ST, 11 strains (including 1 anti-virus virus):
-
- info mainly from George Woodside's virus killer program,
- Anti, Blot, Freeze, Mad, Screen, Key, ACA, Anti, Mouse inverter
-
- and from the Virus destruction utility:
- Milzbrand link virus
-
- also known to exist a family of viruses produced by the Virus
- construction set available at a recent German computer fair.
-
- For the Atari 8 bit series:
- 1 alleged virus (no details as of yet)
-
- For the Apple II system, 4 strains:
- Elk cloner, festering hate, Cyberaids and Zlink
-
- For a grand total of 44 discernable strains which are (or in some
- extinct cases wer)e in circulation, I guess with about 57 if you count
- variants as separate viruses. A list of this kind by its very nature
- cannot be comprehensive, but I would be exceptionally grateful for
- information on any viruses which do not appear on the above list, and
- on any aliases you use for the above viruses which I have not cited.
-
- And PLEASE, PLEASE how about some consensus regarding the terms used
- to name viruses (especially IBM PC), the proliferation of aliases does
- no-one any good and just serves to muddy the water. So far we have
- named viruses by characteristic growth in file length, transient
- memory usage, strings found in code, originating country, major
- infections, resources added, obvious screen symptoms, oh and alleged
- writer!
-
- Oh, thanks to Y.Radai for the corrections on my report about the April
- 1st strains. Hopefully, it won't be quite as prolific as the Friday
- 13th.
-
- It is my intention to disassemble a number of the more common viral
- strains in the near furture to cross-check the reports published on virus-l,
- comp.sys groups et al. The next list will include a classification of each
- virus by its mode of operation, brief description of symptoms and available
- disinfection software. Anyone else compiling a similar list please get in
- touch so we can arrange to pool information, any reports of infections by
- viruses not appearing on the above list would be of particular interest.
-
- PS.Any more news about the so called Russian virus?
-
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- -
- Dave Ferbrache Personal mail to:
- Dept of computer science Internet <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Heriot-Watt University Janet <davidf@uk.ac.hw.cs>
- 79 Grassmarket UUCP ..!mcvax!hwcs!davidf
- Edinburgh,UK. EH1 2HJ Tel (UK) 031-225-6465 ext 553
-
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- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 11:50:24 EST
- From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu
- Subject: Arcmaster: here is the explanation (PC)
-
- Original-From: felstein@mcnc.org (Bruce M. Felstein)
- Original-Subject: Re: Virus warning
-
- The supposed bugs in ARCMASTER version 4xx and higher do not exist. If
- people would bother to read the doc files they would have learned that
- the directory that you specify for it to use to unarc and arc files to
- MUST be a special blank directory, since it will erase the entire
- contents of the directory after it finishes rearchiving the file. If
- you didn't bother to read the docs you might specify your root
- directory to use for this function and after ARCMASTER was done, it
- would automatically erase all files in that directory.
-
- Bruce Felstein Microelectronic Center of NC
- N3DOD Research Triangle Park, NC
- felstein@mcnc.org
-
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