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RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops
From: <Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:36:42 +0100
Spreading *from* a floppy is easy - try to boot from one, even failing to load an OS from the floppy will get the virus executed and allow it to write to hard disk. No matter what OS is on it. The real question that remains: Is there any step in the production of the image that does involve booting from a floppy disk at any time? Friends I consulted about that said no. All of them. Sabotage? I wouldn't rule it out.... cheers, Toralv
-----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Montag, 17. September 2007 23:21 To: Dirro, Toralv Cc: juha-matti.laurio () netti fi; funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:49:37 BST, Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com said:Boot sector viruses don't spread easily (read: 'at all')under currentoperating Systems. Doesn't matter if there is a floppy or notThen how did it propagate *onto* the gold system that got imaged to create the distributed image on the laptops? :)
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- 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Juha-Matti Laurio (Sep 15)
- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Richard M. Smith (Sep 15)
- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Toralv_Dirro (Sep 17)
- Re: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Toralv_Dirro (Sep 17)
- Re: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
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- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Gregory Hicks (Sep 15)
- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Juha-Matti Laurio (Sep 17)
- RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops Toralv_Dirro (Sep 17)