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- From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: re: DOS Viruses under HPFS (OS/2)
- Message-ID: <0008.9301281842.AA17847@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 18 Jan 93 21:16:43 GMT
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- >From: antkow@sis.uucp (Chris Antkow)
- >
- > If you are testing a virus in a DOS window and it "goes off" so to
- >speak (If it has a destructive nature...), will it trash the entire
- >system, or just mess up the DOS window (Theory states that it should
- >only mess up the DOS window... But can someone vouch for this?)
-
- I'm not sure what theory you're referring to here! *8)
-
- If the virus does its damage by doing something that works in the DOS
- box (like erasing all your 8.3-named files, say, or otherwise munging
- with the data in them), it will work in the DOS box. If it tries to
- do something that doesn't work in the DOS box (writing to the hard
- disk by direct BIOS calls is generally off, I think, for instance), it
- won't work. But remember that OS/2 is still designed as a single-user
- system, and if you run a program that tries to do X, the system will
- generally assume that X is what you want done, and do its best to do
- it. I wouldn't run viruses on my production system if I were you...
-
- DC
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