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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: DOS Viruses under HPFS (OS/2)
- Message-ID: <0012.9301221631.AA12947@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 14 Jan 93 17:24:35 GMT
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- antkow@sis.uucp (Chris Antkow) writes:
-
- > Being a virus researcher myself, I find it sometimes suicidal to test
- >out and disassemble new stealth and polymorphic class viruses on my
- >DOS based PC. I'm deathly paranoid that it's going to escape on one of
- >my floppies and infect the rest of my house... Even though I know my
- >ASM a bit better than the average Joe, who knows what might happen.
-
- Well....what you need is a "clean room" - say, a setup like the one I
- saw at Symantec - a room full of XTs, ATs etc, and several guys
- working full-time in there analysing/testing viruses...and not allowed
- to take them out of the room.
-
- Realizing that this might not be practical in your case, I would
- suggest a special, dedicated machine, just for running viruses.
-
- If that is too expensive, consider adding a switch to the outside, to
- make the disk read-only while you are looking at the viruses.
-
- - -frisk
-
- Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-1-694749
- Author of F-PROT E-mail: frisk@complex.is fax: +354-1-28801
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