Stoned Computer Virus Master (1 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stoned is thename of a boot sector computer virus created in 1987, apparently in NewZealand. It was one of the very first viruses, and was, along with itsmany variants, very common and widespread in the early 1990s.The phraseis found in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and masterboot records of infected hard disks along with the phrase 'LegaliseMarijuana'. The original version appears to have been written by someonewith experience only with IBM PC 360KB floppy drives, as it misbehaveson the IBM AT 1.2MB floppy, or on systems with more than 96 files in theroot directory. On hard disks, the original master boot record is movedto cylinder 0, head 0, sector 7. On floppy disks, the original bootsector is moved to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 3. Cylinder 0, head 1sector 3 is the last directory sector on 360 Kb disks, and the authorbelieved that it was 'safe' to overwrite. The virus will 'safely'overwrite the boot sector unless the root directory has more than 96files.…