Timeline for What did disk-validator do?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2016 at 13:18 | comment | added | blubberdiblub | Also, the Lazarus label originated from Disk Doctor, not from Disk-Validator. | |
| May 1, 2016 at 7:28 | comment | added | blubberdiblub |
@SF. fortunately they fixed that with the advent of AmigaOS 2.0 and onward. Those more modern Amiga operating systems had their Disk-Validator in the Kickstart ROM and would never attempt to load it from the file :L/Disk-Validator anymore. That means those kind of virii were unable to load and spread on the newer OSes. Unfortunately it also meant that disks infected and changed by the Saddam virus appeared invalid on those newer OSes. You would need to clean them with an Antivirus that knows the specific malware and undoes their change before the disk can be used again.
|
|
| May 1, 2016 at 7:14 | comment | added | SF. | @tlindner: Disk-validator was a part of AmigaOS/Kickstart, it was supposed to work pretty much transparently so it didn't appear in any simple docs 'for the user', and one of its quirks was that after it was loaded by the OS from any corrupted disk, automatically without user interaction other than inserting the disk, it would be saved by the OS to any consecutive corrupted disk not containing it before attempt to repair it. A behavior happily hijacked by virus writers. All the virus had to do was to mark any inserted disk as 'invalid', the OS did all the rest of the work copying the virus. | |
| Apr 30, 2016 at 20:30 | comment | added | tlindner | I'd like to see some background on this question. What software is disk-validator part of? What does the manual say? | |
| Apr 30, 2016 at 18:19 | answer | added | blubberdiblub | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 12:31 | answer | added | nsandersen | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 10:03 | history | asked | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |