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On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:02:40 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Anybody else here have any interesting virus experiences?
I used to have a collection for testing purposes. Ran into a weird one
with (I think it was) Yale/Alameda on a network. Yale tried to write to
the boot sector, but with a networked drive, it couldn't do that
(redirector = no access to the drive's boot sector), but it had no error
handling for that situation.
If one was running WordPerfect 5.1 (this was the early 90's) on a machine
infected with this virus, the code would jump into a section of WP that
caused it to start writing huge temp files to the networked drive,
eventually bringing all users logged into that account down.
(We used a guest account for most of the students, was easier than
managing separate accounts for everyone and we had no need to do so -
every student saved their work to a diskette).
This situation was completely reproducible every time.
Jim
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