17 Nov
2003
17 Nov
'03
7:52 a.m.
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:43, Hans Franke wrote:
Am 16 Nov 2003 2:36 meinte Fred N. van Kempen:
(don't forget the NOP). The last trick I re,member
was the POP CS,
which worked on a 8086/88, while generated an invalid opcode int on
186 and above.
Snicker,
the 'pop cs' instruction was the one reason I managed to keep from
getting the Yale virus on my very first PC (HP Vectra CS). Yale went
around in a big way at college, in the PC labs. I couldn't manage to
get it, even when I conscientiously _tried_ to infect my PC.
I wonder if I still have a disassembly for that old virii around
somewhere.
David
Useless trivia re Yale:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/alameda.shtml