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to: Bob Lawrence
from: Niels Petersen
date: 1996-10-30 13:47:06
subject: Do it yourself Virus checking

>  NP> The last job I did was done like that. A BAT file and an EXE
 >  NP> that had at least 20 GOTOs' in it :-) It does a validation of
 >  NP> all the COM EXE etc files on each HD and screams if one has
 >  NP> altered internally.

 >   That's a good idea. I never trust a burglar alarm I haven't made
 > myself, and the same applies to viruses. Some clever bastard can
 > always find a way around the well-known alarms and locks.

Yeah. Inoticed that some had posted a warning about a WORD macro with a
virus in it :-(

 >   How do you check the files? It would be easy enough to do your own
 > CRC.... just use a different seed.

How does a CRC work.
I just use a checksum of the ascii value of each byte of the file.

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