Sylvain Lauzon wrote in a message to All:
SL> I found two unknown functions and potentialy dangerous maybe?
SL> mov al,00h
SL> mov ah,13h
SL> int 2f
...
SL> mov al,00h
SL> mov ah,55h
SL> int 2f
Extract from Ralf Brown's Interrupt List:
--------D-2F13-------------------------------
INT 2F U - DOS 3.2+ - SET DISK INTERRUPT HANDLER
AH = 13h
DS:DX -> interrupt handler disk driver calls on read/write
ES:BX = address to restore INT 13 to on system halt (exit from root
shell) or warm boot (INT 19)
Return: DS:DX set by previous invocation of this function
ES:BX set by previous invocation of this function
Notes: IO.SYS hooks INT 13 and inserts one or more filters ahead of the
original INT 13 handler. The first is for disk change detection
on floppy drives, the second is for tracking formatting calls and
correcting DMA boundary errors, the third is for working around
problems in a particular version of IBM's ROM BIOS
before the first call, ES:BX points at the original BIOS INT 13; DS:DX
also points there unless IO.SYS has installed a special filter for
hard disk reads (on systems with model byte FCh and BIOS date
"01/10/84" only), in which case it points at the special filter
most DOS 3.2+ disk access is via the vector in DS:DX, although a few
functions are still invoked via an INT 13 instruction
this is a dangerous security loophole for any virus-monitoring software
which does not trap this call ("INT13", "Nomenklatura", and many
Bulgarian viruses are known to use it to get the original ROM entry
point)
SeeAlso: INT 13/AH=01h,INT 19,INT 9D"VIRUS"
--------l-2F5500-----------------------------
INT 2F U - DOS 5+ - COMMAND.COM INTERFACE
AX = 5500h
Return: AX = 0000h if an instance of COMMAND.COM is already running
DS:SI -> entry point table
Notes: used to access the shareable portion of COMMAND.COM, which may have
been moved into the HMA; only the primary COMMAND.COM retains this
portion
procedures called from a dispatcher in COMMAND's resident portion;
most assume that the segment address of the resident portion is on
the stack and are thus not of general use
SeeAlso: AX=5501h
greetz,
Tom
tomtorfs@mail.dma.be
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