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- From: puttk@infonode.ingr.com (Ken Putt)
- Subject: Re: Uploaded Viruses
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.182448.13315@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:24:48 GMT
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- Michael.Konor@p0.f8.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Konor) writes:
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- >LW> If someone uploads a virus, it can't really infect your system
- >LW> unless you "load" the program right? Please explain.
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- >I wasn't talking about loading it. I said that I decompress the files and
- >scan them for known viruses.
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- Simply copying a virus-laden file onto your disk should cause no
- damage. Causing that program to be executed "kicks in" the virus. Ever
- extract an archive that pumped out a neat little advertising blurb as
- it started decompressing? Please note that it could be possible
- to hide a virus in an "archive" so that when you "unzip" it (especially
- a self-extracting one) it executes the virus. The safest way to extract
- and scan new files is to do so on a floppy. Load and run the program on your
- hard drive only when you are as sure as you can be that it is virus and trojan
- free. Fortunately, these beasties are very rare. I've been a BBS'er for
- years and a full time sysop as well and never saw bit nor byte of one,
- even though I scanned every up and download religeously.
-
- Ken
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