Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!ames!pacbell!sactoh0!hrlaser From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VirusX 4.0 Keywords: Is it... or isn't is? Message-ID: <2186@sactoh0.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 89 23:32:57 GMT References: <6206@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Reply-To: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) Distribution: usa Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. Lines: 39 In article <6206@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) writes: >If comp.binaries.amiga was at all reliable this wouldn't be a question, >because the program would have and SHOULD have been posted there. >If VirusX4.0 is REAL, then it should be made available to net.Amigans >at once. If it's a fraud, the warning should have been posted at once. >The program's too widely used in the Amiga community for this "is it >or isn't it?" stuff to go on. VirusX 4.0 is for real. It had its world premier on People/Link on 26 Nov. 89. It was uploaded there by its author, Steve Tibbett (Plink: STEVEX). He uploaded it as a LHARCed ".LZH" file. This is what's in it: Listing of archive: 'dh1:vx40.LZH' Original Packed Ratio Date Time Type CRC Name -------- ------ --- -------- -------- ----- ---- ------------ 16655 16655 0% 11-26-89 21:17:50 -lh0- FE12 KV.LZH 24801 24801 0% 11-26-89 21:56:06 -lh0- 2F46 Source.LZH 19016 10783 44% 11-26-89 21:48:14 -lh1- AD63 VirusX 24155 10056 59% 11-26-89 21:32:00 -lh1- 4E40 VirusX.Docs 2315 1291 45% 11-26-89 21:51:32 -lh1- 75DD Last_Minute.Txt 386 149 62% 07-08-88 23:48:48 -lh1- 4F05 VirusX.info -------- ------ --- 87328 63735 28% 6 file(s) So check whatever you download against that listing.. if it's not the same then your copy has been tampered with. [note that VirusX's icon is the same as the old verion(s) which is why it's dated a year and a half ago in the LHARChive] -- Harv Laser | SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. People/Link: CBM*HARV | UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!hrlaser