VIRUS-L Digest Tuesday, 22 Nov 1988 Volume 1 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Coming Survey
request for info on ibmpc virus -- "@:)" (PC)
Hardware damage...
Book (micro)
Prosecution of Morris
CSI-proceedings
Re: Jerusalem Virus... (PC)
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 17:28:20 EST
From: Ron Dawson <053330@UOTTAWA>
Subject: Coming Survey
HI THERE!
Just dropping a note to inform you that in the next couple of days,
you will be graced with a survey.
This survey is for a research paper that we are doing on Malicious
software(Such as Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, etc.). The survey
will attempt to determine what problems you or your organization has
had from malicious software and the results. I am sure that you will
all be jumping at the opportunity to help us with our research.
The responses will be kept confidential and the results will be posted
back to this list. The survey should be sent on Tuesday or Wednesday
(22 or 23 Nov). Hope to be hearing from you soon.
(Note: Detailed instructions will be included in the preamble to the
survey)
Ron Dawson 053330@UOTTAWA Systems Science - University of Ottawa
J. Lin LINHG@UOTTAWA Administration - University of Ottawa
Steve Adamson 453140@UOTTAWA MBA Program - University of Ottawa
Tom Kannemann 385230@UOTTAWA MBA Program - University of Ottawa
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 18:35 EST
From: "DANNY CHORIKI AT
[email protected]" <DAC@CUNYVMS1>
Subject: request for info on ibmpc virus -- "@:)" (PC)
greetings netters!
We seem to have been hit by a virus. What do you know?
The following is what we know at 6:30 est 11/21/88.
1. ibmpc's with hard disk
2. dos
3. infected files have the following TWO characters all
over them "@smiley face". That's hex 30 02 as my key
board does not have the right keys.
4. infected program files seem to stop operations
5. we know that the virus can be copied when a file is
copied or in an infected file
6. the virus wipes out the root directory of a hard disk
Have others seen this one? Have we given it a name?
(how about @ sh*tface?) ;> Anywhere to look for
more info?
Send stuff to me at the following addresses:
bitnet dac@cunyvms1
internet dac%
[email protected]
or something like that depending on the state of mind of the
computer you are sending from and if it's new to this group
I'll summarize to the net.
BTW, "we" are the academic computer center for the Graduate
School at City Univ. of New York. This is our second known
virus, as we just beat back a benign version of "brain" with
help from Virus-L. Yah!
Be talking at ya,
Danny Choriki
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Date: Mon, 21-NOV-1988 19:53 EST
From: The CAEC managers <CAEC@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: Hardware damage...
Hello everyone,
On the topic of hardware damage caused by a virus (somebody
impail me if my memory isn't correct about this one!), I seem to
remember about 4 or 5 years ago, I big discussion about a program
(virus, whatever!) that would literally fry all of the chips in
certain Radio Shack portable computers. If memory serves me correct,
it worked by setting some of the interrupts accessed by the CPU (for
clock speed), to a different value, causing the CPU to overheat and
fail. I know that you can modify the CPU speed on Radio Shack Color
Computers by a simple poke to a given address, which causes the CPU
speed to double. You can quadruple the speed of the CPU, but buy then
the associated chips, (like the address multiplexing chip) cannot keep
up. This little poke was employed by quite a few software vendors to
speed up the execution time of their programs -
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* Tom Kurke Bitnet: CAEC@VUVAXCOM
* Computer Consulant Snailmail: Villanova University
* Computer Aided Engineering Center Villanova, PA 19085
* College of Engineering MABellnet: (215) 645-7360
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* Disclaimer: The views mentioned above are my own, not my employers. Come
* to think of it, if they were, it would be strange times indeed!
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 19:59:35 CST
From: James Ford <JFORD1@UA1VM>
Subject: Book (micro)
This is taken from the Nov. 21 edition of US News & World Report (page
82, Virus-Proofing Your PC).
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