Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:73439 comp.sys.amiga.tech:16715 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: New virus? Message-ID: <2339@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 5 Dec 90 07:42:50 GMT Lines: 31 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <9300@latcs1.oz.au>, burton@latcs1.oz.au (J Anteloupas D. Bronzo.) writes: >Followup-To: >Distribution: >Organization: B.E.A.R. Group Incorporated,Latrobe Univ.,Melb,Australia >Keywords: > >In <1990Nov26.215421.16919@sarah.albany.edu>, > I could have sworn jac423@leah.albany.edu (Jules Cisek) managed to say: >> >> >>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 > ^^^^^^^^^^ > I found this beastie a few months ago. I was running VirusX4.0 >which didn't find it, and zerovirus V?.?? couldn't see it either > so I killed it by reformatting all of my working floppies. >I've had no problems since. Great going James. You've resurrected a disk with DiskDoctor, and then proceeded to kill it by formatting it. That'll teach it! -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+