Original Posting:
What affect (if any) would a PC floppy infected with
Michaelangelo virus have on a Sun if it was inserted in
a Floppy drive and mounted as a PCFS file system?
I think that since the virus is said to affect the boot block(s)
of PC disks, the disk probably would not be readable by the
Sun since it is somewhat corrupt, but maybe not.
If it fooled my SPARC 10 and mounted correctly would the virus be
able to harm any of my local SPARC disks or files ?
( These are not really hypothetical questions, this already happened. )
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SUMMARY: As expected, it will have NO affect. The virus is written
in Intel code and cannot possibly execute on a SPARC without
the aid of an interpreter such as SOFT-PC, in which case
it would still only affect the simulated DOS file systems.
( This was really more of a curiosity question, I apologize
it I wasted bandwidth. )
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