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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST User Virus!
Message-ID: <5236@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 09:42:15 GMT
References: <10099@suns2.crosfield.co.uk>
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Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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From article <10099@suns2.crosfield.co.uk>, by imt@crosfield.co.uk (ian taylor):
> (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.

I checked this out with George Woodside's VKILLER.  My disk is clean. 
It was formatted with Martin Backschat's FASTCOPY III, and has a
formatter ID of 'IBM' in bytes 3-5 of the bootsector, but the serial
number is OK - i.e. it doesn't correspond with an MS-DOS version number.

It looks like ST User is innocent this time.  (Innocent of this, at
least.  On the cover disk is what they call - several times - the 'very
latest version of UniTerm'.  The version is in fact 2.0c.  The last
version that Simon Poole released is, I believe, 2.0e011.  2.0c is quite
usable; if they didn't shout so much about the program being "hot from
the programmer's fingertips" - with a 1987 copyright date??? - I
wouldn't mind.)

Graham
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