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From: david@howitt.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New virus?
Summary: you silly children
Message-ID: <129@howitt.dog.oz.au>
Date: 5 Dec 90 23:56:22 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.215421.16919@sarah.albany.edu> <9300@latcs1.oz.au>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Geomechanics Australia
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In article <9300@latcs1.oz.au>, burton@latcs1.oz.au (J Anteloupas D. Bronzo.) writes:
> Organization: B.E.A.R. Group Incorporated,Latrobe Univ.,Melb,Australia
> 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
           ^^^                     ^^^^     ?????

Diskdoctor COULD not recover the *name* of the disk. So it has to generate
a name for the disk. Since the disk has 'just come back from the dead' it
was appropriately names 'Lazarus' (Read ya Bible dudes, there are heaps
of great quotes in there :-)

> >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

Of course virus killers wont find it, it is NOT a virus. Someone at Commodore
can be accused of having a sense of humour.

> 	so I killed it by reformatting all of my working floppies.
> I've had no problems since.

Drastic, but I have to laugh!!
> 
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