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From: mlelias@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike Elias (Mighty Amigo) Systems Analysis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 re-booting (viruses)
Message-ID: <1997.26b568ac@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:16:59 GMT
References: <1990Jul30.213442.28133@wam.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Jul30.213442.28133@wam.umd.edu>, snovell@wam.umd.edu (Scott J. Novell) writes:
> I just recently got an Amiga 500 after having had an Amiga 1000.  My question
> is this:
>   When you hit ctrl-A-A to reboot the machine, does that wipe out everything 
> in memory, or like in the case of a RAD: disk in memory, does it leave some 
> of the memory untouched?  The reason I ask is if I ever encounter a floppy 
> disk with a virus on it (has happened twice before on my 1000), will rebooting
> the machine wipe the virus out of memory or do I have to turn the machine 
> completely off to expunge it?
> Thanks for any help.
> 

	I've owned an A500 for a few years now, and I have had a couple of
virus's.  The one's I've had (can't remember their names)  DO stay in memory
during a warm-boot.  So, yes, you do need to turn the machine off to clear the
memory.

	BTW, RAD: files also stay in memory during a warm-boot.

> snovell@cscwam.umd.edu
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