Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: ST User Virus!
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 20:25:55 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May28.202555.16251@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991May24.015422.23817@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <10099@suns2.crosfield.co.uk>

In article <10099@suns2.crosfield.co.uk> imt@crosfield.co.uk (ian taylor) writes:
>(This is probably only of interest to UK netters, although I believe ST User
>magazine is available internationally by mail order)
>
>Has anyone had problems with this months (June) ST User cover disk?
>I think that there is a free virus included on the coverdisk, which mangled
>the directory of two of my disks before I eradicated it. This is the second
>time that ST User has done this, and frankly I am bloody unimpressed. Anyone
>who's got this disk, beware.


     Having read this message I immediately checked a bunch of my floppies.
I used a recent version of VKiller.  I *did* find a virus, but I'm not
certain it came from the June ST User disk.

     VKiller reported the "Green Goblin" virus.  I'm not sure where
this virus usually resides, but when I checked my June ST User disk
VKiller reported no virus present.  It didn't find a virus on any of
10 other disks I also checked.  This brings to mind that 1 of the things
I looked at from the Net recently was this "only_ste.lzh" sound
demo package.  Now this is a strange package with what seems to
be a whole disk compressed into an ".MSA" file which in turn was
LHARC'd.  I unpacked this kit just this morning.  When I unpacked
the disk I used the MSA.PRG auto-formatting command.  It seems to
me that this method of packaging might allow for transporting of
boot sector or other viruses.  Has anybody else unpacked this demo
kit recently?
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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