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From: rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus on the loose
Message-ID: <539@inria.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 06:55:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 06:55:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 05:43:06 EDT
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Well, that's fun. There are a few points I'd like to know about:
1) Does the virus declares itself as soon as it is installed ?
That is : suppose you have an infected boot disk. does it show the
virus message on the first time it is booted ? I thought it would be smart
to add a boot counter, so that the message should be shown only after
the fifth boot for example :->.
2) How could it be that DiskZap can not detect the virus ? Is the format
of the Boot Block 1 modified by the virus ?
3) Is the virus destructive in some way ?
4) Could all this stuff be a BIG JOKE on us, fearful users ?
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