Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!stable.ecn.purdue.edu!yorkw From: yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Slow workbench disk problem Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 91 01:47:00 GMT References: <1749@winnie.fit.edu> <1336@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 25 bjames@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Binoy James [890904]) writes: >The MS-DOS world came out with something like Powerpacker..... PK-lite! Can Powerpacker cause Problems? I've been crashing a lot lately and i wonder if it's because of the Powerpacked Prog's i've been using.. Could a "VIRUS" get onto the end of a powerpacked prog and get "Unpacked" (provided the virus attached After the prog got PP'd) and when it got Unpacked it'd be gibberish. So the Virus would cause a Crash (Random Op codes). If the virus was there and GOT ppacked then it'd be undetectiable by programs that look aT program code. (It's just that i "Crash" after ANY warmboot and i can't Figer out WHY!) (I'm reaching here) . -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York ---------------------------------------------- Macintosh... Proof that a Person can use a Computer all day and still not know ANYTHING about computers.