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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: WARNING! Fish Disks are not virus free!
Message-ID: <7785@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:39:49 GMT
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In article <17527@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> zz96sr@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk) writes:
>     One of these (ff350 most likely) has a virus.  I made the mistake of
>putting them on DH0:, assuming that Fishdisks are pretty safe.  This
>morning, the system would not come up -- Error Validating Disk.
>     I ran diskdoctor on DF0: and DH0:  Now, DH0: is called "Lazarus"....

	THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY A VIRUS!!

	The DiskDoctor program renames your disk to "Lazarus."  What
probably happened is you had a bad block on your hard drive.  You ran
DiskDoctor which renamed the disk.

                                                        Dan

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