Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!omx!SteveX
From: SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help -- Lamar Exterminator Virus -- coolcapture vector
Message-ID: <SteveX.3334@omx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 20:51:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.172158.15588@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Organization: Artech Digital Entertainments Inc.
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In article <1991Jan28.172158.15588@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> dale@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Dale Miller) writes:
>My questions: 
>
>  1.  How serious is the lamar exterminator virus?

Pretty serious.  It will destroy files.

>  2.  Can it affect a hard drive?

I don't believe so.

>  3.  Does VirusX_4.01 with workbench 1.3 normally give the coolcapture
>      vector message?

It does if you have "r" option on SetPatch.  Note that if you're not using
RAD: then normally you don't need the r option, which will also make
VirusX stop complaining.

>  4.  Is there a newer release of VirusX?

"rsn"  - a few weeks probably.

>  5.  Does VirusX check the hard drive?

No.  VirusX watches for viruses in RAM.  If a virus gets loaded FROM
the hard drive, then VirusX will notice (if it's a virus it recognizes),
but searching the entire hard drive for a virus could take many minutes.
If you want to do this, look at "KV" that came with VirusX_4.0.lzh.

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