Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: October 12/13 (PC) Message-ID: <0006.8909251230.AA29228@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 20 Sep 89 19:29:03 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 17 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu In article <0003.8909191146.AA07427@ge.sei.cmu.edu> ACS1W@uhvax1.uh.edu (Meesh) writes: }I'm the editor of our university's computing newletter. I need to }know how users can detect the October 12/13 virus ahead of time. Is }there a way at all? ... How about backing up the hard disk, then setting the system date ahead to October 13 and re-booting? [Ed. Sounds (to me) kind of like testing to see if the mines in an inert minefield are "ert" by having someone walk through it. :-)] - -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimis non Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe