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From: w5ly@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: is there a Kickstart virus?
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.125501.1806@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 90 16:55:01 GMT
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Anyone hear of a virus infecting a Kickstart disk?  The behavior of my 1000
changed slightly; happened to occur just after I had a nasty crash, caused
by some PD software. it was bad enough that the machine demanded my KS disk.
And yes, I was dumb enough to do what it said.  Now, the machine takes slightly
longer to boot.  The latest virus detectors (that I have) can't find anything
on my boot disk, or in any of the files on it.  I haven't seen any nasty
messages or anything.  I have a not-bootable HD system, and I boot with the
same disks every time.

So, my possibilities for what's happening are 1) there's something on the
boot disk that I haven't found, 2) there's something on the KS disk, or
3) I'm starting to see things due to too much hacking.