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to: KURT WISMER
from: LEWIN EDWARDS
date: 1996-12-18 19:35:00
subject: Re: Virus & antivirus fu

KW> viruses in the future? vxd infectors would be my guess (if it hasn't
It's hard to do this though. If you infect a VxD, what happens then? How does 
it spread? People don't normally go transmitting device drivers to one 
another. It would be quite easy to hack at a VxD and add in some rogue code, 
but what's the point? The only operating environment that runs VxDs is 
Windows-for-MSDOS (including Win95), and any real-mode code can bonk the disk 
directly thru int 21h and 13h anyway, so why complicate things by putting the 
code in a VxD?
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/
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