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- From: bill.lambdin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Bill Lambdin)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: DOS Viruses under HPFS (OS/2)
- Message-ID: <0007.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 15 Jan 93 23:27:00 GMT
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- Quoting from Chris Antkow to All About DOS Viruses under HPFS (O on
- 01-15-93
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- CA> Being a virus researcher myself, I find it sometimes suicidal to tes
- CA> out and disassemble new stealth and polymorphic class viruses on my
- CA> DOS based PC. I'm deathly paranoid that it's going to escape on one o
- CA> my floppies and infect the rest of my house... Even though I know my
- CA> ASM a bit better than the average Joe, who knows what might happen.
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- When I test viruses, I configure my CMOS to deactivate the hard drive,
- then I cold boot the computer from a write protected bootable diskette.
- Re-activate the hard drive.
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- Later i hope to get a laptop for research purposes. You might want to
- think of a dedicated virus test machine yourself.
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- Bill
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