40Hex Issue 02 File 002

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40Hex

 · 4 months ago

40Hex Volume 1 Issue 2                                                   0002 

                THE SAFE WAY TO EXPERIMENT WITH VIRUSES 

 
   The problem with fooling around with viruses is that you never know 
   what damage there going to do to your hard disk.  I have a couple of 
   so called viruses that when run, automatically screw up the FAT on 
   all the disks in the system.  Well, theres a way around getting the 
   shaft from these programs, and also to experiment with legitament 
   viruses. 

   The key is the DOS utitlity SUBST, make this batch file, and copy it 
   to a floppy. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
@echo off 
subst d: a:\ 
subst c: a:\ 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

    What this will do is send any access to disks C: and D: (the two 
    hard disks in my case) to drive A:  So the only damage inflicted 
    will be to the floppy in A: 

    No programs can access you hard disk when this command is issued.  I 
    use it all the time and as of now it has proved 100% safe. 

    Oh yeah, if you dont feel like distroying a floppy every time you 
    mess with a virus, you can do this teqnique from a RAM disk. 

    Have fun... 

 

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