Re: QUESTION - Viruses & Shrinkit

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <Cw1CnB.G4H@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU (Rolf Braun) writes:
>Randy Shackelford (shack@crash.cts.com) wrote:
>: In article <350vbg$f0s@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
>: Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>: >   Viruses for pre-GS's are almost impossible to do, mostly because
>: >with only 5.25" disks, and a reboot between programs, anything in
>: >memory can get stomped on by the next program. HDs and programs that
>: >can stay in memory without being stomped on are almost a requirement
>: >for viruses to emerge.
>: I have a SYS file on a disk somewhere infested with Festering Hate, the most
>: prevalent 8 bit virus. 
>I hear there's also one called CyberAIDS. Other than that, Festering Hate, and
>Lode Runner, there are very few, although I have heard about Apocalypse I and
>2001 Odyssey.

The documentation file on the Photonix disk mentions a couple of other
viruses, by the names of DAVE and STARFIGHTER II (aka BLACKOUT).

The only virus I've ever seen personally was Load Runner.  I still have a
copy sitting on a disk that I remember never to try to boot from.
Disassembling it taught me a few Things Humankind Was Not Meant To Know
about the IIGS Memory Manager...

               - Neil Parker
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