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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