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From: jld8755@helios.TAMU.EDU (Jonathan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New virus?
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Date: 26 Nov 90 23:04:00 GMT
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jac423@leah.albany.edu (Jules Cisek) writes:

>I recently tried running BallyIII off of one of my  game disks but got
>a disk validation error after inserting it.  Diskdoctor found track 40
>to be corrupt but was able to recover everything.  Then I noticed that
>the name  of the  disk    was changed  to  "Lazarus"  (it used  to  be
>"MoreGames").  No one else uses  my computer and I  know of no program
>that would change the  name of a disk to  that.   Could this be  a new
>virus?  The fact that only track 40 was  corrupt (smack in the middle)
>only adds to   my suspicion.   By the  way,  VirusX  4.0 noted nothing
>strange (I always run it since I got hit by Lamer II last summer).

  It's not a new virus; Diskdoctor changes the name of the destination disk
to 'Lazarus' when it cannot determine the name of the disk you were
attempting to recover.

>-- 
>|    // .______. J.Cisek  CSC MiniSystems  "i don't want the world,   \_o_/ |
>|  \X/--|UU UUU| jac423@leah.albany.edu     i just want your half..." \\|   |
>| AMIGA |______| Amiga Student On Campus Consultant  SUNY@Albany, USA  \\   |

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|AMIGA ///                                                                  | 
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