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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 re-booting (viruses)
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Date: 31 Jul 90 00:42:47 GMT
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In <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.

By their very nature, viruses are programs that hang around, either by
attaching themselves to some program that is stored on your disk, or by making
themselves immune to resets. If you suspect a virus, assume that until you have
found and eradicated it, that it is still there, regardless of resets.

-larry

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