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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus Hate Mail
Summary: Xeno virus info please.
Keywords: viruses, Xeno
Message-ID: <102@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 17 Jan 90 22:30:03 GMT
References: <8271@nigel.udel.EDU>
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Reply-To: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar)
Organization: Macquarie University, Sydney
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In article <8271@nigel.udel.EDU> okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay, S J) writes:
>
>The one caveat to this is the Xeno virus, which is basically the first file
>infector virus(i.e. it attaches itself to normal files too, not just those
>in the boot block) for the Amiga. However, I have not seen it, nor heard much
> about it, so I can't really comment on it, save that it is the only
> non-boot-block virus I know of for the Amiga. Anybody else out there in 
>net.land want to comment or enlighten us on this?

Wasn't the IRQ virus a file virus, or did it only hit this country? 

Can anyone who has been hit by this provide we with some Xeno signatures
(ie. distictive methods for detecting its existance).  I will pass them
to Mike Hansell, who will incorporate them into KDV and DUTILS.

Please do not send anything infected, especially if it is unmarked!


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