VIRUS-L Digest Friday, 1 Sep 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 184 VIRUS-L is a moderated, digested mail forum for discussing computer virus issues; comp.virus is a non-digested Usenet counterpart. Discussions are not limited to any one hardware/software platform - diversity is welcomed. Contributions should be relevant, concise, polite, etc., and sent to VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (that's LEHIIBM1.BITNET for BITNET folks). Information on accessing anti-virus, document, and back-issue archives is distributed periodically on the list. Administrative mail (comments, suggestions, and so forth) should be sent to me at: krvw@SEI.CMU.EDU. - Ken van Wyk Today's Topics: Re: Virus Naming re: Virus Report from Brazil Anyone ever hear of this virus? (PC) Is this a virus? (PC) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Aug 89 18:27:28 +0000 From: ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath) Subject: Re: Virus Naming EICHTER@Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu (Jerry Leichter) writes: }The closest match from the traditional sciences is clearly with }medicine. The person who gets to choose the name is the person who }publishes the first article which describes the disease in some }detail. ... }... When the discoverer doesn't choose a name, the disease }often gets named after him (Wernickie's Aphasia). I think this is the way to go for simple psychological reasons. Naming a virus for its discoverer is a strong discouragement to the virus writers. Imagine the frustration of writing what you think is a really nifty virus, only to have someone else's name associated with it. Not much incentive there. There's more than one way to fight this war. - -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 89 00:00:00 +0000 From: David M. Chess Subject: re: Virus Report from Brazil Does this imply that the Lehigh virus has been seen in Brazil? That's certainly news if so; first I've heard of it being anywhere outside Lehigh. Given the destructiveness of this virus, if it's gotten into the World at Large, that'd be worth knowing for sure. Did the article give any more details and/or has anyone else heard of the Lehigh virus spreading beyond Lehigh? DC [Ed. I'm not aware of either Lehigh virus having infected anything outside of the Lehigh University campus.] ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 89 00:00:00 +0000 From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" Subject: Anyone ever hear of this virus? (PC) Has anyone out there ever heard anything of a "Columbus Day" virus? If it exists at all (and I have no proof that it does), then it doesn't appear to have been discussed on VIRUS-L. If anyone can substantiate, one way or the other, the existence of this virus, please email me and I'll summarize to the list. Thanks. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 16:26:00 +0300 From: <87303012@KRSNUCC1.BITNET> Subject: Is this a virus? (PC) HI, there. I 'm a college student studying physics. Now I have discovered a suspicious thing about MS-DOS's behavior in my sense. When I copy some files to a floppy but I misput a write protected diskette, I find the error massage "retry, ...". At this time, if I answer "r" to the massage and puting a non-protected diskette, then the FAT and DIRECTORY of the protected diskette is transfered to the second non protected diskette(and the files that I copied to). Is this a DOS's bug or a virus? I look forward to the help from anybody. Thank you. Kim, YunKi <87303012@KRSNUCC1> BITNET Seoul Nat'l Univ. Dep. of Physics ------------------------------ End of VIRUS-L Digest ********************* Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253