Date   : Thu, 18 Jun 1992 09:34:09 GMT
From   : comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!naos!ewen@uunet.uu.net (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Virus on CP/M (does it exist?)

henryb@aix00.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Dr Henry Brancik) writes:

> Does somebody know (or did anybody come across) a computer virus on
> CP/M machines (I mean CP/M-2.* and CP/M-3.*)?  I do not think that
> it is possible [...]

It's definitely possible - the fact that most CP/M machines boot from
disk makes it possible. However, it is unlikely to be able to do
much/survive across many machines simply because of the inherient
differences between the various machines that ran CP/M.

> in the .SUB files).  My claim is that such a program never existed
> on those machines.  Can anyone support me on that?
>
I've heard rumours that there was a CP/M virus, down to some details of
what it was supposed to do.  I'm sceptical because when I heard it was
really too late for anyone to bother with CP/M for writing a virus
because it wasn't mainstream any longer.

>                                       - Henry Brancik,

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Ewen McNeill, ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (or ewen@actrix.gen.nz)