It's only a matter of time . . .

Brian Cluff plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:41:50 -0700


> Now, let's see how long it takes some miscrant to combine this
> infection method with a BIOS nuker (CIH Virus), a monitor killer
> (one that monkeys with the H & V refresh settings), and is written
> in 100% assembly so it runs under Linux also (W32.Winux).  This
> will result in something that kills your monitor ($$$), cannot be
> easily removed by the average person without buying a new MOBO ($$$),
> and spreads to everything.  With 200,000 people replacing their
> computers and monitors, it should jumpstart the economy, right?

I might be wrong on this, but even if something were written in assembly it
wouldn't run on systems that it wasn't written for due to the headers of
each system.... the part at the top of the file that says..  I'm a binary
made for you.. you can run me... ELF on Linux.

Brian Cluff