I believe that there is no an easy way and to answer to your question is
difficult.
The interesting thing still is how the virus found its way to the production
line. And why the virus was so old (and harmless).
- Juha-Matti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spreading *from* a floppy is easy - try to boot from one, even failing
to load an OS from the floppy will get the virus executed and allow it
to write to hard disk. No matter what OS is on it.
The real question that remains: Is there any step in the production of
the image that does involve booting from a floppy disk at any time?
Friends I consulted about that said no. All of them.
Sabotage? I wouldn't rule it out....
cheers,
Toralv
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Montag, 17. September 2007 23:21
> To: Dirro, Toralv
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [funsec] 13-year old boot sector virus shipped
> on German laptops
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:49:37 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Boot sector viruses don't spread easily (read: 'at all')
> under current
> > operating Systems. Doesn't matter if there is a floppy or not
>
> Then how did it propagate *onto* the gold system that got
> imaged to create the distributed image on the laptops? :)
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