Re: Viruses and TI-8 series -Reply
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Ok everyone, I've been watching this thread, and I think the original message has been twisted
around. The program that was shown was an MACHINE LANGUAGE program for the TI83. You
would run this by typing send(9prgmWHATEVER
Also, this is not a virus, just a way to crash the calculator, no different than any other badly written
Machine Language program. And one more thing, it will not do any good to type it in at the home
screen because TI only put ML support in by using a prgm element and sending it, that's it.
And finnaly, I have to admit that all of this virus talk is kind of silly. I mean, viruses didn't become
popular, for lack of a better word, until machines had hard drives and much more RAM than 32k.
Come on, it's a calculator. If you're concerned about losing a copy of your programs, you should back
them up to your PC or not share programs. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of the programmer, and you
shouldn't be surprised if that latest game erases everything. And at the worst, you will have to remove
both sets of batteries, and reset the calculator, something I've done on my (now) lowly TI82, and it
can't even support ML. Yes, even TI makes mistakes in programming.
Dennis Munsie
dmunsie@unomaha.edu
>>> Alfred T Chu <alfy@JUNO.COM> 23 September 1996 20:42 >>>
This Is not a virus...That bum just wanted to scare everybody...I typed in the virus and today, my friend
accidently ran the program...I thought
I was doomed...BUT..Fortunately it did nothing but give an error.
Well, I don't think there are any viruses for Ti's...
Alfred
ALFY@juno.com
LA,California
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:10:19 -0700 george egbert
<gmegbert@SBCEO.K12.CA.US> writes:
>At 06:38 PM 9/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>what about the TI-82?
>>any viruses?
>>
>>Bhuvanesh Bhatt.
>>
>>On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Rupert Scammell wrote:
>>
>>> Whilst experimenting with the TI-83 calculator, I accidentally
>succeeded
>>> in creating a very destructive program which will cause extensive
>data
>>> corruption, requiring that the calculator be reset to regain use of
>it.
>>> I enclose the source code below. WARNING: I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY
>FOR
>>> THE USES OF THIS CODE. IT IS EXTEREMELY DESTRUCTIVE AND WILL CAUSE
>>> EXTENSIVE DATA CORRUPTION AND DAMAGE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>> :CD804A
>>> :C9
>>> :End
>>> :0000
>>> :End
>
>
> Let's hope now that the "authorities", i.e. Texas Instruments,
> will verify or correct that this 83 virus is possible and answer
>definitively the question
> regarding viruses on the 82!
>George Egbert
>Math Department
>San Marcos High School
>Santa Barbara, CA
>gmegbert@sbceo.k12.ca.us
>
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