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- VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 21 Nov 1988 Volume 1 : Issue 15
-
- Today's Topics:
- Jerusalem Virus... (PC)
- Request for anti-virus information (micro)
- UUENCODE, ETC; (PC)
- Can viruses cause hardware damage?
- Recent Virus (Internet)
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- Date: Fri Nov 18 16:22:54 1988
- From: Pedro Sepulveda J. <PSEPULVE@USACHVM1>
- Subject: Jerusalem Virus... (PC)
-
- Hi Networkers...!
-
- We are agree to tell you that, in our University,
- it has been developed a program which take out the JV virus
- from the .COM files. The author is Gonzalo Rojas Costa, an
- electric engineering student which works with us in the virus
- investigation.
-
- This program ( called VACUNAJV.COM ) was originaly
- developed in assembly language, and the release 1.0 has been
- tested with success cleaning a lot of spreaded programs.
-
- Actualy, the program is available for the BITNET
- users, and you just have to write us. But first, we need the
- UUENCODE and UUDECODE programs for the sending.
-
- Besides, we are begining to work in a similar
- program that cleans the .EXE files.
-
- Our purpose, as work group, is to develope efective
- tools for the file spreading, making protection rules and
- studing the efective damage produced by the virus, and how
- they are produced.
-
- We know that in the world exist many groups working
- on the same area, an we would like to contact them for the
- information interchange. Lately, we have had some cases with
- the BRAIN virus, and we NEED all the information available.
-
-
-
- Hoping your response,
-
- Grupo de Soporte Tecnico de Secom
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
-
- Note: We are talking of a PC IBM or compatibles.
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 88 18:18:26 -0900
- Subject: Request for anti-virus information (micro)
- From: BILL _ POTTENGER <FTBP@ALASKA>
-
- Looking for any and all info on anti-viral software, hardware
- (including plug in cards), and OS stuff. Please help - am having
- trouble locating useful info. (Rest of message follows below...)
- Bill
-
- => #34 FTBP Wed 16 Nov 23:23
-
- From: BILL _ POTTENGER
-
- Hello!
- I was hoping you could help me track down some people doing research
- on secure (meaning virus proof) pc architectures. I'm looking for
- some profs or grad students who are designing virus resistant pc
- architectures... it's for a project I'm doing for my senior project
- in high performance architecture class CS448 up here... Any help
- would be appreciated!
-
- Bill
-
- ps. due date: 12-9-88
-
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-
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 88 13:26:45 EDT
- From: Jean Coppola <SSAT@PACEVM>
- Subject: UUENCODE, ETC; (PC)
-
- Hi, thanks to all who sent debrain.exe in 'coded' form. I requested
- uuencode pas and uudecode pas from LEHIIBM1 but they will not compile
- properly (read error free) under Turbo 4.0.
-
- Perhaps someone can take the time to explain to all newcomers how this
- procedure works so we can get DEBRAIN.EXE in an executable format.
-
- [Ed. I'll try to put up Turbo Pascal 4.0 versions of uuencode and
- uudecode on our LISTSERV before the end of this week.]
-
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-
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 88 14:21 EST
- From: Ain't no livin' in a Perfect World. <KUMMER@XAVIER>
- Subject: Can viruses cause hardware damage?
-
-
- I believe I've read somewhere that viruses can cause hardware
- problems, like drives to fail. Does anyone know what the specific
- problem with the drives could be if a virus would do this(cause one to
- fail.)?
-
- Tom Kummer
-
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-
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 88 12:10:47 EDT
- From: SSAT@PACEVM
- Subject: Recent Virus (Internet)
-
- With all due respect, has anyone considered that the recent virus
- might have been a test conceived by the father and son working as a
- team?
-
- After all his father is the Director of Computer Security at the Fort
- Meade computer center and could authorize such a test! [Ed. I don't
- think that title is correct; I believe that Robert Morris, Sr. is a
- research scientist for the NCSC, if memory serves me correctly.]
-
- I think this could have been done to emphasize the need for more
- thorough testing and control of government appropriated software.
-
- In any event, no real damage was done, no files destroyed, just a
- massive computer networl brought to it's knees. Imagine if the same
- thing happened when SAC reported 100+ missles inbound!
-
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