Virus Be Aware

Praetorian22

Hi guys

My mother came across an email describing a new virus which is making the rounds.

It seems severe.

Here is the details




SUBJ: Really Nasty Virus
AREA: GENERAL (1)

... After another hour of
corrupted hard drives I found what I think is the world's worst
computer virus yet. The virus distributes itself on the modem sub-
carrier present in all 2400 baud and up modems. The sub-carrier is
used for ROM and register debugging purposes only, and otherwise
serves no othr (sp) purpose. The virus sets a bit pattern in one
of the internal modem registers, but it seemed to screw up the
other registers on my USR. A modem that has been "infected" with
this virus will then transmit the virus to other modems that use a
subcarrier (I suppose those who use 300 and 1200 baud modems
should be immune). The virus then attaches itself to all binary
incoming data and infects the host computer's hard disk. The only
way to get rid of this virus is to completely reset all the modem
registers by hand, but I haven't found a way to vaccinate a modem
against the virus, but there is the possibility of building a
subcarrier filter. I am calling on a 1200 baud modem to enter this
message, and have advised the sysops of the two other boards
(names withheld). I don't know how this virus originated, but I'm
sure it is the work of someone in the computer telecommunications
field such as myself. Probably the best thing to do now is to
stick to 1200 baud until we figure this thing out.

Mike RoChenle


Any help/guidance would be warmly welcomed...

Rackstar

Is your mother somehow stuck in the late 80's??

Praetorian22

My mother is a novice with computers in truth and I wanted to check this out with some people who are familiar with virus protection due to all the scams that exists these days.

Is there cause for concern regarding her PC?

Rackstar

Dial up modems are almost extinct. This is a hoax from the late 80's / early 90's

Digital Solitude

A lot of the stuff mentioned sounds made up, and vaccinating a modem? What?

I don't know much about networking (didn't even cop it was dialup) but I'm pretty sure virus's can't do **** like that, or they'd be so simply stopped if they could.

coylemj

That 'virus' is one of the earliest of it's type (hoax), it dates from 1988. Just tell your mother to ignore it. It's in the same category as the e-mail that says there will be five Saturdays and Sundays in August and this only happens every 256 years. The giveaway is that there will be a sentence encouraging you to forward it to all your friends, a classic element in every hoax (=nuisance) virus.

Praetorian22

I see thank you guys very much I greatly appreciate that.

It seems these days there are so many scams and things to be aware off.

Again thank you so much, greatly appreciated

davo2001

This really made me laugh, all this is, is a few buzz words and what he is actually saying makes no sense what so ever and actually isn't possible.

unkel

Praetorian22 wrote: »

I suppose those who use 300 and 1200 baud modems should be immune

LOL