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From: hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: What BYTE BANDIT VIRUS does? I found one...
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.164443.23132@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:44:43 GMT
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GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos) writes:


>     Last weekend I initialized my system with a friend's bootable disk to see
>some improvments he did in his startup-sequence. After, I reseted my system and
>initialized with my workbench, who have the program Virus_checker5.12 instaled.
>Imediately it found a Byte Bandit in memory !! The program disabled the virus
>and after I removed it from my friend's disk.
>     I want to know what IS the Byte Bandit, and what it does.The virus_checker
>docs only list all known viruses, but not what it does. How can I get a detailed
> description of the virus damages (maybe in the docs of other antivirus program?
>). This was the first virus I ever found, and I am a little scared.

	What you've got is alittle piece of history there.  The Byte
Bandit was the second realy big virus on the Amiga about 3 years ago.
Well it was the second big virus I heard about.  All it does is lock up
your console after awhile.  I doesn't attack hard drives and it doesn't
mess up data, other than the boot blocks of the disk.  When it locks up
your console your can restore it and disable the virus by pressing the
five bottom keys from left to right.  alt,amiga,space bar,amiga,alt. (or
is that right to left?).  Well anyways it doesn't trash memory so
anything you were working will still be there so you can save your work
and deal with the virus.  All in all its harmless, except to
formitinoned disk blocks.

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