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                   Information File #5 - Happy Columbus Day!

 

                          10-13-89 - Optical Illusion

 

 Preface

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 Well, it's Friday the 13th, 1989. Yes, Columbus Day. This is the day the

 media says, "over 750,000 computers across North America and Europe will be

 hit." This Columbus Day Virus was to hit these systems on Columbus Day 1989.

 So when your system's clock would switch from 10-12-89 to 10-13-89, you

 would have the system lock up while the virus ate the File Allocation Table.

 Hence, the hard drive not booting up when you re-booted up your computer.

 

 The Virus

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 The virus itself was supposed to have originated in England where a group of

 users decided to ruin everyone's drives on the 13th of October. How

 convenient that it happens to be Columbus day too. No one is sure exactly

 where the virus is from (what file etc.) because the way the virus works.

 What happens is that the virus attaches itself to every EXE. and COM. file

 in your main directory in c:f except the COMMAND.COM file. This is because

 90% of the virus checkers that people use check for any differences in the

 COMMAND.COM file on boot up since the last boot. The virus adds

 approximately an extra 1024 bytes to each file that is infected and keeps

 adding itself to more and more EXE's and COM. files as they enter and leave

 your c:f directory. If you run one of these files that are infected, nothing

 will happen. This is because of the type of virus. Remember this is not a

 trojan that you run that will fuck you over right away. It just sits there

 until the systems' clock turns to 12:00:01 on the 13th of October. Some

 people that believe they are infected with the virus think that if they skip

 the 13th on their clock that they will be safe. This is not so. The virus

 will mess up the drive on the 13th or any day after Columbus day.

 

 Who Will Get Hit?

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 The people that first discovered the virus say that approximately 75%

 percent of the people that get the virus will be from modeming. Yes, that's

 us. "Damn!" you might say, but this is just bullshit. Everyone has an equal

 chance to get this virus. It is true, however, that modemers have more of a

 chance to get it because we get so many more files in and out of our system

 than the average Joe that goes and buys Wordperfect v5.0 for $500.00 bucks.

 Another misconception is that pirates will get it much more than public

 domain users. This is not true either. It is basically the other way

 around. The public domain users have a much higher chance in checking the

 virus than anyone else because of the bulletin board is infected than every

 EXE. and COM. file that is downloaded (unzipped) is also infected and hence,

 fucking whoever is a downloader on that board.

 

 In Conclusion

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 Don't be a leech and download and run everything you get your grubby hands

 on if you don't want to get hit be this or any other virus. A few hints to

 saving yourself from a trojan or virus is simply, make backups. If something

 is important on your drive then back it up. Secondly, don't be paranoid.

 Don't go get every virus checker or scanner around because most of them

 create a virus on your system in the first place.

 

 Note From the Author

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 Well, this was my first information Gfile as a N.A.R.C. member. I hope it

 cleared up some misconceptions about the virus. Some of my next Gfiles for

 N.A.R.C. will be on advanced carding for those that already know about

 carding and would like to learn a few original and interesting (not to

 mention, easy) ways to get some good shit. For those of you that would like

 to find about carding from a beginner's point of view, get a hold of

 the Gfile I wrote called, "Getting Serious About Carding" or call one of

 local N.A.R.C. members for some more information.

 

                           (C)opyright 1989 N.A.R.C.

 

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