On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, geneb wrote:
I would be astonished if any (and I mean _any_)
virus scanner would
find a
legitimate virus on any media consumed by 8 bit computers.
certainly not live.
But, some PC viruses, such as "Stoned" (which was also modified slightly
and re-released as a wannabe for the NON-EXISTENT "Michelangelo") can be
dumb enough to try to write themselves to track 0 sector 1 of any
disk in
a drive of the PC, disunirregardless of whether that disk is capable of
transmitting it.
Sure, but my virus scanner only complained about the one or two
instances of Stoned (which I let it "fix"). As far as I know, there
was never a known instance of a virus on an 8 bit machine.
g
With all the targeting of industrial equipment there may be some which
target it via trying to poke at serial and other interfaces from the PC
that the main infection runs on. Such would probably incorporate
exploits for input and communication to attached devices to inject code
into the targets with the objective to crash it. I don't know how many
attached devices running industrial equipment use the 8080 and 6502,
etc., but there are surely some. Perhaps a PC virus targeting such
would set of a modern day virus scan.
It would hardly be a threat, and such viruss would not be in the disk
images for 8080 systems. The sequences that the scanner would be
looking for in PC binaries might be however. "fixing" an image Don has
would likely render it damaged or useless.
Jim