--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3Z00005 Date: 03/28/97 From: GORDON FREY Time: 09:27pm \/To: DYLAN SIDES (Read 1 times) Subj: Naughty Robots On (25 Mar 97) Dylan Sides wrote to Darin Crossland... DS> Well I'll be damned! It's Darin! And he was talking about 'Re: DS> Naughty Robots'! DC> But there should be some sort of investigators on the internet... DS> No there shouldn't, and 90% of the people in the INet would probably DS> agree with me. If you don't like some of the stuff that's there, DS> don't go to it. Simple as that. Removing other people's ability to DS> view information that /you/ don't like is more or less playing God.. Maybe he would like to renstate Hitler? Gordon ... Ignorance of history makes current events surprising. --- PPoint 2.03 * Origin: From the Underground Zorkian Empire (1:105/84.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00000 Date: 03/29/97 From: CAESAR WONG Time: 04:40pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Junkie Virus Howdy, I know that this goes a little way back now, but could someone please provide me with a little info on the Junkie Virus (The boot sector version) Thanks Cheers, Caesar --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: < - Adelaide, Australia +61-8-8351-7637 (3:800/432) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00001 Date: 03/28/97 From: RICHARD ST. JOHN Time: 01:57pm \/To: DAVID DESROSIERS (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Hoax virus warnings, -=> In our last episode David Desrosiers babbled something to Richard St. hn DD> Still bunk that Notes doesn't exist anymore? Or bunk that DD> Agents in Domino can't be trojans? Still bunk that you open up an E-mail and suddenly your computer is infected. {IE: Good Times} And yes, agents can be trojans RS ... Oxymoron: Suburban Culture --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Slings & Arrows BBS St. Louis, Mo. (1:100/205.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00002 Date: 03/30/97 From: ROD FEWSTER Time: 04:52pm \/To: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (Read 1 times) Subj: ANOTHER WEIRD IDEA... > RF>A .zip trojan using embedded ANSI as a comment has been around for > RF>years. If you're using ANSI.SYS (does ANYONE still use ANSI.SYS ?) > RF>it will format your HD while you're unzipping the archive. > mayhaps you could enlighten me as to which replacements of which you > speak. i did use a replacement for a time but it gave me a wierd problem > where my screen would have residual highlighted areas. if you can take > the time to reply i would appreciate it. I use DVANSI from Quarterdeck's DESQView, but there are plenty of others to choose from ... PKANSI, MICROANSI, etc. Most aftermarket ANSIs prevent keyboard re-mapping. > also someplace safe to obtain source code for viruses would be nice You're talking to the wrong guy about this ... in the wrong echo. The moderator might kick me in the gonads if I tell you. :) --- * Origin: --==[ Secure Antivirus Systems International ]==-- (3:640/886) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00003 Date: 03/28/97 From: MIKE HUDSON Time: 03:25pm \/To: KRISTOPHER YOUNG (Read 1 times) Subj: VIRUS WARNING!!!! -=> Quoting Kristopher Young to All <=- KY> This message appers to be a friendly lettter asking you if you are KY> interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too KY> late. KY> The "Trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of KY> your hard drive, destroying all the data present. KY> It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will KY> AUTOMATICALLY forward itslelf to anyone who's e-mail addres is present KY> in YOUR mailbox! KY> This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and hold the potetial to KY> DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your mailbox, and KY> who's mail is in their mailbox and so on. Naturally, this is just another "Good Times" scare...but even if it were true...how can it e-mail it self to everyone in your e-mail list, if it's already destroyed your hard drive? That's irrational! It would have to have a time delay built in, so it could e-mail out to those other addresses before it destroyed your drive. ... Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - (Unregistered) * Origin: WILD TURKEY BBS * Doors, Doors, Doors (1:133/5012.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00004 Date: 03/30/97 From: PETER LOUWEN Time: 02:49pm \/To: PETER ARISTOMENOPOULOS (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Naughty Robots -=> Quoting Peter Aristomenopoulos to Dylan Sides <=- PA> But wouldn't it be good if there was at least some order on the net, PA> and for that to happen.... there has to be some around to ... lets say, PA> keep the piece :-) Would they be keeping *their* peace, or yours, or mine ? The absence of any Decency Maintenance Corps on the Internet would seem to be (to me at least) a Good Thing. It's like TV: if it upsets you, don't watch it. If you are easily offended by big tits/virus source code, don't watch that Russ Meyer retrospective/visit that VX site. Peter ... Excuse me while I change into something more formidable. --- EBO-BBS Diemen - NL * Origin: EBO-BBS Diemen (http://www.worldonline.nl/~biginski) (2:280/901) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00005 Date: 03/30/97 From: PETER LOUWEN Time: 02:49pm \/To: KURT WISMER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Naughty Robots -=> Quoting Kurt Wismer to David Desrosiers <=- KW> your own federal government does not agree with this (as evidenced by KW> the fact that the book applied cryptography can no longer be shipped KW> anywhere with the source code on computer readable media).. "No longer" ? I bought it when it was just out. No diskette, as I live in the Netherlands, and therefore am potentially untrustworthy, or something. Anyone have an Inet address where said code (the complete version) may be obtained ? Peter ... Een naaimachine naait, een nietmachine niet. --- EBO-BBS Diemen - NL * Origin: EBO-BBS Diemen (http://www.worldonline.nl/~biginski) (2:280/901) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00006 Date: 03/30/97 From: PETER LOUWEN Time: 02:49pm \/To: KRISTOPHER YOUNG (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: VIRUS WARNING!!!! -=> Quoting Kristopher Young to All <=- KY> If anyone receives mail entitled; "PENPAL GREETINGS!" please delete it KY> WITHOUT reading it!!! I have. I deleted your message IMMEDIATELY, without reading it. I didn't need to, as I knew IMMEDIATELY that it was a load of old cobblers. KY> This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and hold the potetial to KY> DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your mailbox, and KY> who's mail is in their mailbox and so on. There is an amazingly potent antidote, called "The Brain". Run "The Brain" daily, and all COMPLETELY MYTHICAL e-mail viruses will cease to exist forthwith. Peter (who sends his PENPAL GREETINGS) ... Double your clock speed - Plug into 220 volts --- EBO-BBS Diemen - NL * Origin: EBO-BBS Diemen (http://www.worldonline.nl/~biginski) (2:280/901) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00007 Date: 03/30/97 From: RICK COLLINS Time: 07:37am \/To: DAVID DESROSIERS (Read 1 times) Subj: Naughty Robots -=> Quoting David Desrosiers to Rick Collins <=- -=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=< DD> Still though, regardless of cost... do you have the ISBN DD> number? The ISSN number is 0527-7892. That's the best I can do. Canadian law should be of only passing interest to you, though. TTFN. Rick. Ottawa, ON 30 Mar 7:38 --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20 * Origin: BitByters BBS, Rockland ON, Can. (613)446-7773 v34, (1:163/215) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 171 VIRUS INFO Ref: E3^00008 Date: 03/29/97 From: LUKAS-FABIAN MOSER Time: 12:26pm \/To: ROD FEWSTER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Hoax virus warnings, etc .... Hallo rod, Du schriebst am Mittwoch, dem 26.03.97: rf> I presume you're referring to ShareTheFun ? Oh, because I've no sample I don't know the exact name, but I've seen a warning in the german av echo. rf> Reading this infected email in MSWord on a target computer starts the rf> infection/email cycle again. Ok, it's no email virus, but i think it's dangerous to say "oh, by email no virus can ever be transmitted". rf> would this mean I'd sent you an EMAIL virus ... or just that I'd sent rf> you a virus VIA email ?) Via email. Here, you've posted it. But ShareForFun "postes" itself, therefore it's no virus that can't be spread just by reading e-mail, but he needs no human help to send itself to other adresses. hmm... i think that would be a computer worm? Ciao, Lukas --- CrossPoint v3.11 R * Origin: "Fool On the Hill" ist ein Beatles-Song! (2:2480/8849.15)