RE: 13-year old boot sector virus shipped on German laptops

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

I believe that there is no an easy way and to answer to your question is difficult.

The interesting thing still is how the virus found its way to the production line. And why the virus was so old (and 
harmless).

- Juha-Matti

Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com wrote: 
> 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 current 
> > > operating Systems. Doesn't matter if there is a floppy or not
> > 
> > Then how did it propagate *onto* the gold system that got 
> > imaged to create the distributed image on the laptops? :)

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