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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: VirusX_4.0 Problems
Message-ID: <774@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 02:17:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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    Is anybody else getting gurus from VirusX_4.0?

   The first thing I ran into was that if I used the -k flag
 [check KickTagPntr], I got a requester that the KickTagPntr was set
 and should I clear it? This happened with the 3 finger salute, but
 not on cold boots. What is the difference, I wondered? RAD:? Sure
 enough, I disassembled the ramdrive.device and it messes around with
 the KickTagPntr. Okay, so I won't use the -k option. This might save
 you some grey hair.

   I do not think I have any virus. KV passes all my cC: & C2: files. I
 generally practice safe sex ;-). There have been no weird messages, no
 upside down screens, no unexplained disk accesses, no unexplained gurus.
   [Well you know what it's like when you're programming ;-)]

   But I have still been getting Gurus. On my system [B2000/2meg in
 8UP/ A2090A/no ECS], the Task Control Block for VirusX_4.0 was sitting
 at $20C730, and I got used to seeing that number over the last week.
 The Gurus were not caught by GOMF1.0. They were address errors;
 $00000003.x [and once an illegal instruction error].

    When I got a $20C730 Guru while I was online, I went back to 3.2...
 What is your experience?

 <-Harvey

 "The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds;
                          the pessimist knows it." -R.J.Oppenheimer
     Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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