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- Information File #5 - Happy Columbus Day!
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- 10-13-89 - Optical Illusion
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- Preface
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- Well, it's Friday the 13th, 1989. Yes, Columbus Day. This is the day the
- media says, "over 750,000 computers across North America and Europe will be
- hit." This Columbus Day Virus was to hit these systems on Columbus Day 1989.
- So when your system's clock would switch from 10-12-89 to 10-13-89, you
- would have the system lock up while the virus ate the File Allocation Table.
- Hence, the hard drive not booting up when you re-booted up your computer.
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- The Virus
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- The virus itself was supposed to have originated in England where a group of
- users decided to ruin everyone's drives on the 13th of October. How
- convenient that it happens to be Columbus day too. No one is sure exactly
- where the virus is from (what file etc.) because the way the virus works.
- What happens is that the virus attaches itself to every EXE. and COM. file
- in your main directory in c:X except the COMMAND.COM file. This is because
- 90% of the virus checkers that people use check for any differences in the
- COMMAND.COM file on boot up since the last boot. The virus adds
- approximately an extra 1024 bytes to each file that is infected and keeps
- adding itself to more and more EXE's and COM. files as they enter and leave
- your c:X directory. If you run one of these files that are infected, nothing
- will happen. This is because of the type of virus. Remember this is not a
- trojan that you run that will fuck you over right away. It just sits there
- until the systems' clock turns to 12:00:01 on the 13th of October. Some
- people that believe they are infected with the virus think that if they skip
- the 13th on their clock that they will be safe. This is not so. The virus
- will mess up the drive on the 13th or any day after Columbus day.
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- Who Will Get Hit?
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- The people that first discovered the virus say that approximately 75%
- percent of the people that get the virus will be from modeming. Yes, that's
- us. "Damn!" you might say, but this is just bullshit. Everyone has an equal
- chance to get this virus. It is true, however, that modemers have more of a
- chance to get it because we get so many more files in and out of our system
- than the average Joe that goes and buys Wordperfect v5.0 for $500.00 bucks.
- Another misconception is that pirates will get it much more than public
- domain users. This is not true either. It is basically the other way
- around. The public domain users have a much higher chance in checking the
- virus than anyone else because of the bulletin board is infected than every
- EXE. and COM. file that is downloaded (unzipped) is also infected and hence,
- fucking whoever is a downloader on that board.
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- In Conclusion
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- Don't be a leech and download and run everything you get your grubby hands
- on if you don't want to get hit be this or any other virus. A few hints to
- saving yourself from a trojan or virus is simply, make backups. If something
- is important on your drive then back it up. Secondly, don't be paranoid.
- Don't go get every virus checker or scanner around because most of them
- create a virus on your system in the first place.
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- Note From the Author
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- Well, this was my first information Gfile as a N.A.R.C. member. I hope it
- cleared up some misconceptions about the virus. Some of my next Gfiles for
- N.A.R.C. will be on advanced carding for those that already know about
- carding and would like to learn a few original and interesting (not to
- mention, easy) ways to get some good shit. For those of you that would like
- to find about carding from a beginner's point of view, get a hold of
- the Gfile I wrote called, "Getting Serious About Carding" or call one of
- local N.A.R.C. members for some more information.
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- (C)opyright 1989 N.A.R.C.
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