Re: encrypting virus (KOH)
Now, if a smart compressor/encryptor wrote itself along with the files it was treating, and then wrote a nice README file which explained that files on the floppy were compressed/encrypted, would be automatically decompressed/decrypted, and that the treatment could, if you wished, be performed on your hard drives and/or other floppies by making a backup and then executing the following command, that would be perfectly fine.
3) the program does not do this, much like Stacker does not create README files which explain that your disks are now compressed. This
As a matter of fact, when you Stac a floppy, a README file *IS* generated, and the stacker.com tsr kindly gives you the 1-800 number you can call to order stacker if you received the disk from someone and do not have stacker now, but would like to have such a nifty utility on your hard drive... Sean
As a matter of fact, when you Stac a floppy, a README file *IS* generated, and the stacker.com tsr kindly gives you the 1-800 number you can call to order stacker if you received the disk from someone and do not have stacker now, but would like to have such a nifty utility on your hard drive...
Well maybe things were updated since I bought my copy of Stacker 2.0. A stacker.log file is created, but it only logs errors during the screate process. No mention of compression is made. If everything went well, the log file contains no information, except headers and empty lists. But then I never stack floppies because I want to be able to use them wherever I go, something Stacker 2.0 can't do, but Stacker 3.0 does. I wonder if the author of KOH made this same decision: to insert decrypting code on the floppy so you aren't tied to using one computer, or to not "invade" a floppy so you are stuck using one computer. /-----------------------------------\ | Karl L. Barrus | | elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu | <- preferred address | barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXTMail) | \-----------------------------------/
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