Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!srt
From: srt@cos.com (Stan R. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: rus rumor!
Keywords: NIGHTMARES!
Message-ID: <3256@cos.com>
Date: 30 Jun 88 13:23:26 GMT
References: <3152@crash.cts.com> <264@cadomin.UUCP> <58141@sun.uucp> <1705@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: srt@cos.UUCP (Stan R. Turner)
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <1705@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff) writes:
>I was under the assumption that the Spirit Technologies memory board
>for the a1000 (which I have) has a 2K battery backed up ram on board.
>I say assumption because I haven't looked at the specs lately, but that
>would mean it could be done, no?  That memory on the clock is meant
>to hold stuff during power down, and it would make no sense to have
>2K of battery backed up ram only to have it wiped on power up.  Then
>again this would be a very limited virus.

   Even if a program existed within your 2K ram there is no way that
the CPU would be executing that program unless the virus patched
your operating system to execute the program in non volitile ram.  If
it did this then why bother to stick the program in non volitile ram
in the first place.  I do not know why a clock needs 2K of battery 
backed up ram.
  Anyway that is my 2 cents worth.


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