VIRUS-L Digest Thursday, 27 Jun 1991 Volume 4 : Issue 111
Today's Topics:
Correction to Volume 4 Issue 110
What info is avilable on viruses? (PC)
Why Patricia Hoffman's virus summary is not on SIMTEL20 (PC)
Re: Can such a virus be written .... (PC)
re: doom2:reply (PC)
Can such a virus be written .... (PC)
re: McAfee on VSUM accuracy and Microcom (PC)
VIRx Version 1.5 Released (PC)
Re: protecting mac files via locking (Mac)
Re: Virus checking for Sun4 (UNIX)
Re: Can such a virus be written .... (PC)
Re: McAfee on VSUM accuracy and Microcom (PC)
Re: Virus protection: what to use.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 15:25:57 -0400
>From: Kenneth R. van Wyk <
[email protected]>
Subject: Correction to Volume 4 Issue 110
In V4I110, I posted the first couple sections of a product review on
Central Point Anti-Virus by Chris McDonald, but forgot to add a note
saying that the rest of the review (and Chris's other reviews) is
available by anonymous FTP on cert.sei.cmu.edu (IP number
128.237.253.5) in the pub/virus-l/docs/reviews directory.
Sorry,
Ken
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 16:09:13 -0400
>From: Jean-Serge Gagnon <
[email protected]>
Subject: What info is avilable on viruses? (PC)
Does anyone have a list of different virusus and their know effects on
the computers that they infect? And where can I get the latest version
of SCAN?
I'm asking because I'm new to virusus. I've been in computers a while,
but never in such a virus prone environment like a University.
Any replies would be welcome as I have a very scarce knowledge about
this subject. I.e. I know about stoned and that's about it, I don't
even know what it does apart from saying "Your PC is now stoned!".
Thanks.
Jean-Serge Gagnon Internet: <
[email protected]>
Bitnet: <
[email protected]>
Specialiste en Equipement Informatique
Hardware Maintenance Specialist
Universite d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
(613) 564-5903 ou/or 7183
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[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 15:51:00 -0600
>From: Keith Petersen <
[email protected]>
Subject: Why Patricia Hoffman's virus summary is not on SIMTEL20 (PC)
I have received many inquires as to why SIMTEL20 does not have VSUM,
Patricia Hoffman's virus summary list.
SIMTEL20 is prohibited by the author from carrying VSUM. Patricia
Hoffman blamed us for a problem caused by someone who downloaded her
file from our collection. Since her virus summary list is copyrighted
we must comply with her wishes, even though the file is available on
almost any BBS and many other FTP sites.
The file is available from risc.ua.edu [130.160.4.7] in the directory
pub/ibm-antivirus.
Keith
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Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20]
Internet:
[email protected] or
[email protected]
Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 18:05:17
>From:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Can such a virus be written .... (PC)
>From: padgett%
[email protected] (A. Padgett Peterson)
>
>
[email protected] (Steven van Aardt) writes:
>>
>> Is it possible to write a PC virus which installs itself whenever
>> you place an infected disk in the drive and do a DIR command ?
>1) No: You cannot contract a PC virus by doing a DIR, a virus must be executed
