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From: consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A3000 and viruses...a question.
Keywords: A3000 Virus Break Oops Sh*t!
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Date: 2 May 90 18:18:30 GMT
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Reply-To: consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler)
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A question a friend of mine just put to me about the A3000 got me thinking
about something.  All of the viruses that currently exist on the Amiga -
what are they going to do now under the new OS?

Since most viruses (viri?) don't do things in a legal way, are they now
going to seriously break the system if you run an infected application or
use an infected diskette?

A related question, I guess.  Custom bootblocks are very similar to a
bootblock virus in that they do things in a nonstandard way.  Are all of the
programs that use custom bootblocks (ie: games) going to break under 2.0?

Any ideas?

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