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From: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Virus on the ST
Message-ID: <593@spcc386.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 08:37:21 GMT
References: <9003250646.AA11299@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Organization: SPC Company, Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
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Mickey Boyd writes:
>After having to deal with an outbreak of the "Stoned" virus on several of 
>our PC's, I wish to clarify some things that I have heard about the virus
>situation on the ST (this could be out of date).  Is it still true that:
>
>       1.  No known virus on the ST infects or otherwise screws up a 
>           fixed (hard) disk.
>
>       2.  No known virus on the ST attaches itself to other files, as 
>           opposed to the standard bootsector method.

Well, out here in Europe we DEFINATELY have link-viruses. There are about four
of those, but since some crappy German magazine published a listing of a link-
virus and since the utterly disgusting 'Virus Construction Kit' has been out,
who knows what kind of viruses are being spread. I don't know about viruses
that screw up a hard disk, I haven't encountered any yet. A friend of mine has
been on top of viruses ever since the first one was discovered and we have
disassembled quite some viruses already.
Get yourself a very good viruskiller (the same friend has written a very
extensive one but I shouldn't be advertising) and be very careful with new
software.
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