VIRUS-L Digest   Monday,  3 Jul 1989    Volume 2 : Issue 148

Today's Topics:
Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)
joe mcmahon - ancient macs
Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)
Trojan horse on CompuServe
ERIC NEWHOUSE where are you?
Re: CMS viruses (IBM CMS)
more on West German boot virus

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Date:    03 Jul 89 14:42:09 +0000
From:    [email protected] (Peter Dinda)
Subject: Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)

(c)Brain also seems to randomly mark sectors bad - whether there is
anything in them or not.  At UW-Madison's Academic Computing Center
(MACC), we've also noticed that a new version of the virus is making
its way into our labs - one that does not leave the (c)Brain warning
and thus, can not be detected by our NOBRAIN program.  Has anyone seen
a detector that works by finding 'unique' code in the boot record?

Peter A. Dinda
(also [email protected])


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Date:    Mon, 03 Jul 89 15:37:38 -0000
From:    [email protected]
Subject: joe mcmahon - ancient macs

Dear Joe,
We are using System 3.2, Finder 5.3 (you see we really do have antiques!)
I think this is because of having to use version 3.1 of the laserwriter
to drive an equally ancient laserwriter. The machines have actually been
upgraded to 800k RAM and it maybe that they can run on a more modern version
of the system which will handle Vaccine etc. Any help welcome.
Rgds,
Iain Noble

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Date:    Mon, 03 Jul 89 12:37:56 -0400
From:    [email protected] (Bruce Cantie)
Subject: Re: Request for info on viruses (PC)

   We have had the same (c) Brain running around UB for some time now,
but have managed to kill it off. We Have the source code (written in C) for
NOBRAIN, which will remove the bad sectors, and volume. We had picked up
the cure from another University, and put it in all of our micro sites.

Bruce Cantie --- [email protected]


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Date:    Mon, 03 Jul 89 09:18:38 -0700
From:    Steve Clancy <[email protected]>
Subject: Trojan horse on CompuServe

I posted this message on the CompuServe Information Service today, and
thought I would share it with the other members of Virus-L.  The text
of the message follows:

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