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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mouse Virus
Message-ID: <1991May15.230735.9710@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 23:07:35 GMT
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In article <91135.161802NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET> NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET writes:
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>Well hello
>Listen I ve got the dreaded mouse pointer reversal virus. I need to
>stamp out this beasty.
>So I need sugestions on the best way to clean already infected disks.
>I had an idea that mabe the virus could be edited off the disk?.
>All pointers towards a solution are welcome.

Yeah, you can just erase the boot sector and that should solve your problem.
Be sure to reboot then, with a clean disk.

Or you can pick up a copy of George Woodside's Virus Killer at atari.archive.
The latest version is 3.84.  The filename is vkill384.lzh, I think.


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