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From: aggaton@diku.dk (Klavs Torben Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD virus
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.194120.4364@diku.dk>
Date: 28 Nov 90 19:41:20 GMT
References: <14470@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes:

>I believe I have picked up a virus on my 3000, and it seems to be on
>my hard disk.  

>Is there any program that can clear the HD of viruses (I used virusX
>3.1 to clear several disks of the sca virus, but it seems to ignore
>the HD.\

>thanks
>                                                  Rick Blewitt
>                                                  rblewitt@ucsd.edu
Hi!
   I would like a description of how the virus act, 'cause I think I've got
one too, on my 2000. Here is a summarize of the symptoms:

 - The HD works fine for a couple of days after a new FORMAT.
 - Suddenly with NO warning the machine seem to lock it self up.
 - The LED is lit, and the exec seems screwed.
 - I can write text on the screen, but there is no reaction. (The program is
   probably waiting for a message it never gets).
 - When I try to boot, the sequence never get farther than to the scsi.device.
   It doesnt even boot from the floppy-disk, or the RAD:
 - I then have to make several warnstart after each other to get past the
   locked position, eventual it will happen after a while....

I'm not sure though, that it's a virus...It might also be a fault in the
controller...
						Klavs Pedersen