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From: | Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM> |
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Subject: | Re: real mode & protected mode (fwd) |
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Date: | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:44:38 GMT |
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:09:59 GMT, "Andrew Jones" <luminous-is AT home DOT com> wrote: >> What virus does work on Linux or any other protected OS? Is that why >> there has never been an antivirus product for BSD, UNIX, or GNU? > >Windows is a protected OS <cough> Any OS with a nearptr hack is not a protected OS. A malicious program can just nearptr all the RAM and infect (erm, "patch") the code that handles the "launch application" API call. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/
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