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- VIRUS-L Digest Wednesday, 21 Mar 1990 Volume 3 : Issue 61
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- Low level format (PC)
- Utilities?
- bogus Amiga program: 'VirusX 4.4'
- Re: Getting files from "anonymous FTP"
- probably not maliciouos [was Re: possible new trojan on Genie (Mac)]
- Re: Stoned disinfection information (PC)
- another trojan called "Virus Info" (Mac)
- VirusX Trojan (Amiga)
- VirusX Trojan (Amiga) More Info!
- Vaxservers and Mac viruses
-
- VIRUS-L is a moderated, digested mail forum for discussing computer
- virus issues; comp.virus is a non-digested Usenet counterpart.
- Discussions are not limited to any one hardware/software platform -
- diversity is welcomed. Contributions should be relevant, concise,
- polite, etc. Please sign submissions with your real name. Send
- contributions to VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (that's equivalent to
- LEHIIBM1.BITNET for BITNET folks). Information on accessing
- anti-virus, documentation, and back-issue archives is distributed
- periodically on the list. Administrative mail (comments, suggestions,
- and so forth) should be sent to me at: krvw@CERT.SEI.CMU.EDU.
-
- Ken van Wyk
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 90 16:06:06 -0000
- From: LBA002@PRIME-A.TEES-POLY.AC.UK
- Subject: Low level format (PC)
-
- Many of the articles I read on recovering from a virus infection
- recommend a "low level format" of the hard disk as part of the
- process. What is a "low level format" and how does it differ from just
- using the DOS FORMAT command?
- Thanks in advance for any information.
-
- Rgds,
- Iain Noble
-
- - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Iain Noble |
- LBA002@pa.tp.ac.uk | Post: Main Site Library,
- JANET: LBA002@uk.ac.tp.pa | Teesside Polytechnic,
- EARN/BITNET: LBA002%pa.tp.ac.uk@UKACRL | Middlesbrough,
- INTERNET: LBA002%pa.tp.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu | Cleveland, UK, TS1 3BA
- UUCP: LBA002%tp-pa.ac.uk@ukc.uucp | Phone: +44 642 218121 x 4371
- - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 19 Mar 90 22:54:52 +0000
- From: william@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bill King)
- Subject: Utilities?
-
- Can someone tell me where the best place to get the utilities neccessary
- for de-arcing and unzipping the programs would be? For example, I now
- have v59 of scan and clean, but don't have the unzip program. Can someone
- help me out here as to an ftp address where I could get the neccessary
- programs? Thanks.
- Bill
-
- [Ed. The PKZIP and ARC programs are available, among many other
- places, on SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by anonymous FTP.]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 00:02:36 -0500
- From: Jim Shaffer Jr <72750.2335%COMPUSERVE.COM@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.Edu>
- Subject: bogus Amiga program: 'VirusX 4.4'
-
- A notice has just been posted on CompuServe, by one of the sysops of the
- Amiga Technical Forum, that a program purporting to be "VirusX 4.4" is
- in circulation. This is a bogus program! The current version of VirusX,
- as verified by its author, is 4.0.
-
- No details of what "4.4" might do were mentioned.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 Mar 90 10:31:50 +0000
- From: Sam Wilson <ercm20@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Getting files from "anonymous FTP"
-
- In article 1914 of comp.virus XPUM04@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk
- (Anthony Appleyard) writes:
- >
- > Information from "Kenneth R. van Wyk" <krvw@edu.cmu.sei.cert>, with thanks.
- > Some Virus-L messages say that the rest of the message can be got (say) "by
- > anonymous ftp from the/quick/brown/fox/jumps.over.the.lazy.dog". For the
- > information of those not very conversant with FTP, this can be done thus:-
- >
- > Type your computer's command "ftp cert.sei.cmu.edu". "cert.sei.cmu.edu" is
- > a USA email address. It should be "edu.cmu.sei.cert@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay" if
- > typed in UK (I think).
-
- Nope! There is no direct Internet FTP access for most people in the UK.
- We have our own file transfer protocol known as NIFTP (or just FTP to
- its friends) or 'Blue Book'. It does not interwork with the Internet
- and you can't use odd mail addresses like that given above.
-
- If you need to access Internet FTP from the UK the NSFnet-Relay provides
- a service of sorts but I don't know if it's public (yet?). Mail
- Postmaster@uk.ac.NSFnet-Relay (...@NSFnet-Relay.ac.uk for folks outside
- the UK and some folks inside) for details.
-
- Most anti-viral s/w is available in the UK - see the monthly sites
- postings.
-
- Sam Wilson
- Network Planning, Edinburgh University Computing Service
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 Mar 90 14:02:12 +0000
- From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
- Subject: probably not maliciouos [was Re: possible new trojan on Genie (Mac)]
-
- I wrote:
-
- > a rumour has reached me that a program called "Totally Safe Sex"
- > on Genie may be a new trojan.
-
- first disassembly and review makes it look like a harmless
- prank, but I'd still recommend that you do not run the program
- at this time unless you are absolutely certain you know how
- to prevent any potential dangers to your files ...
-
- apologies if you feel that this was an unnecessary alarm,
- but it seemed the lesser evil to pass on a false warning to
- waiting for 5 days to confirm it.
-
- Cheers (or grumble?!?), ---Werner
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 22:51:07 +0000
- From: gm@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary Mathews)
- Subject: Re: Stoned disinfection information (PC)
-
- DEVMTG12@SAKFU00.BITNET (MUSTAFA T. ALGHAZAL) writes:
- >To all virus experts,
- > One of our systems here at SAKFU00 was infected by the STONED virus.
- > I remember that I read a note about how to remove this virus from a
- > hard disk ,but the writer was refering to some issues of COMPUTER
- > & SECURITY which we were not able to get.
- > If any of you knows step by step instructions to remove that virus,He
- > (or she) will be thankfull to send it to me directly or to the list.
- >
- > Mustafa ALGhazal ( DEVMTG12@SAKFU00.BITNET)
- > Academic Services Manager
- > King Faisal Univ.
- > Saudi Arabia
-
- You could remove the stoned virus with McAfee's clean program or more
- simply, by booting off a clean dos disk and use the sys command to
- transfer a new copy of the MS-DOS system onto the hard disk.
-
- 1) boot system on a clean disk
- 2) sys c:
- 3) "Stoned" virus is gone !
-
- That's all.
-
- -
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- \c-
- Gary Jason Mathews | gm@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu
- Columbia University | Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
- - ------------------------+ CPU time flies when you have a lot of bugs
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 Mar 90 02:58:02 +0000
- From: milano!werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
- Subject: another trojan called "Virus Info" (Mac)
-
- shortly after the first 2 trojans showed up on "that Canadian BBS"
- a third (but technically different) one showed up - and I do not
- believe anyone reported it publically yet (and I had hopes to
- snarf the "evil ones" with it. alas ....)
-
- This trojan claims to also be from the "DeathTrack" group as were
- the first two.
-
- it will *IMMEDIATELY* destroy your disk(s) - and I assume if anyone
- had run into it, we would have heard about it by now ...:-()
-
- well, if anyone sees it show up ANYWHERE (or any other program which
- you suspect after running it and finding your hard disk unusable
- immediately afterwards, for that matter) please let me know.
- (you do keep copies of all new software you download on more
- than one place, don't you?!! else, if you execute it and it
- destroys the disk it was on .... right. you can't send me a
- copy for analysis!)
-
- Cheers (what for?! right!), ---Werner
-
- - --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------
- INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu
- or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1)
- UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!werner
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 Mar 90 04:42:17 +0000
- From: consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett L. Kessler)
- Subject: VirusX Trojan (Amiga)
-
- A friend of mine here at SUNY-Binghamton just informed me of a message
- that was posted to CompuServe recently. I've no idea as to how valid
- it is, but it's better to be safe than sorry, even VIA 3rd-hand news.
-
- It seems that somebody has released something called "VirusX 4.4" into
- the public domain. THIS IS A BOGUS PROGRAM, and may be a trojan.
- According to Steve Tibbett (sp?), the author of VirusX, the most
- recent version of the disinfectant is 4.0.
-
- Just thought you might like to know.
-
- +------///-+------------------| BRETT KESSLER |------------------+-\\\------+
- | /// | consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu | \\\ |
- | \\\/// | consp11@bingvaxa.BITNET | \\\/// |
- | \XX/ | (PeopleLink) B.KESSLER | \XX/ |
- +----------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------+
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 Mar 90 07:17:17 +0000
- From: consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett L. Kessler)
- Subject: VirusX Trojan (Amiga) More Info!
-
- With regards to my earlier posting about the bogus version of VirusX
- (version 4.4), here is the original text. It originally appeared in
- comp.sys.amiga and comp.sys.amiga.tech. I thought that my posting was
- a little sketchy, so here's a (slightly) better one.
-
- - -----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----
- There is a file going around now that supposedly has a new version of
- VIRUSX. The archive says the file has version VIRUSX 4.4 and that it was
- released on March 10th.
-
- I've done some analysis on the files in the archive, and the archive
- appears to have the same executables as VirusX 4.0. The doc files and
- the C code in the archive talk about two viruses that are supposedly
- "harmless". It appears the messages were put there to lull people into
- a false sense of security.
-
- I've contacted Steve Tibbett he has confirmed that this archive was NOT
- released by him. He's working on a new version of VIRUSX, but this is
- NOT IT.
-
- WATCH OUT FOR THIS BAD ARCHIVE, AND LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT!
-
- Official VIRUSX releases are posted to ALL the national networks by Steve
- Tibbett, or by an official agent.
- - ------------------
- SR Pietrowicz UUCP: ...!uunet!modcomp!srp CIS: 73047,2313
- 73047.2313@compuserve.com
- - -----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----8X-----
-
- No more "hard info," but at least it's a confirmation that the darned
- thing exists, and that it is probably trouble.
-
- +------///-+------------------| BRETT KESSLER |------------------+-\\\------+
- | /// | consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu | \\\ |
- | \\\/// | consp11@bingvaxa.BITNET | \\\/// |
- | \XX/ | (PeopleLink) B.KESSLER | \XX/ |
- +----------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------+
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 14:22:00 -0600
- From: POST@ADMIN.ripon.edu
- Subject: Vaxservers and Mac viruses
-
- Hi all!
-
- I think I already know the answer to this one, but could anyone
- comment on Mac viruses infecting VAXen file servers. It would seem to
- me that this is impossible, but we'd like a more practical view.
- Thanks.
-
- Mike Post
- Ripon College
- POST@ADMIN.RIPON.EDU
-
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