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From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: The Shily Cancer Virus
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.130811.469@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 16 Apr 91 01:08:10 GMT
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In article <18fca4c4.ARN1daf@brewing.cts.com>, doc@brewing.cts.com (Mitchell M. Evans) writes:
> 
> This may be old news, but I have just been hit by the Shily Cancer Virus.
> It seems to remap the pointer into a smiley-face.  Neither Virusx 4.0 or
> ZeroVirus seem to trap it.  Besides wishing the authors a slow dip in a
> vat of acid, is there anything I can do to get rid of it?

Virus_checker5.17 (by John Veldthuis) can detect 'Smily Cancer'
- it can be found in the /incoming/amiga dir on ab20.larc.nasa.gov.
 
version 5.18 is now out (cures a problem with the Berserker virus
killer on a recent fish disk) - I'll try to get it on there later
this week....

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| o  John Davis - CHEM194@canterbury.ac.nz               o |
| o  (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department      o |
| o  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o |