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From: jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: WARNING! Fish Disks are not virus free!
Message-ID: <16671@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:44:41 GMT
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In article <7785@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>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.
>| INTERNET:   barrett@cs.jhu.edu           |                                |

I have to agree with Dan... you most likely unpacked the files,
hit a bad spot on your HD and ran diskdoctor.. it coudnt find your
old disk.info.. so it chose the last one it came across... 
 
Hey... I really dont think you can store virii in .info files
anyway... I woulda heard of that!! :-)
 
-j


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