Redhat Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 "So, it's weird finding a virus which replicates by using floppy disks and CD-ROMs. This is exacly how the Bacros virus replicates. Bacros was already found a month ago but we've started receiving more questions on it lately. This virus will copy itself to all floppies it sees. It also attempts to burn itself to CD-R discs (complete with an AUTORUN file, which will run the virus when the CD-R is inserted to another machine)."Source: » http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ (Great site btw) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 SneakerNet:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 When I had computer lessons a few years ago, we were not allowed to take floppy's into the class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeonWizard Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 You'd think that by now people would stop making viruses which replicate by floppy disks or CDs, but I guess the reality is that many users forgot about the old days when viruses came with floppy disks, and many will probably not check for viruses when they insert floppy disks or CDs in their computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Floppies were THE method of distributing viruses in the earlier days of computing (when the Internet was part of a global defence system, floppies were the size of dinner plates and CDs were but a twinkle in the eyes of the development engineers at Phillips).This seems unknown or to have been forgotten nowadays and, if one is of a mind to create and propagate malware, it is a good way to do it.In my time I have known several viruses to have been sent via floppy discs - including some commercial ones. These would be considered negligible risk now but, at that time, they had a devastating effect on the computers they infected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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