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From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT WARNING ... Amiga Virus Loose ... PLEASE READ
Message-ID: <2505@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 16:49:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2505
Posted: Wed Oct 14 16:49:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 05:57:14 EDT
References: <15589@amdahl.amdahl.com> <4410011@hpcvcd.HP> <385@mcdsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <385@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>In article <4410011@hpcvcd.HP> charles@hpcvcd.HP (Charles Brown) writes:
>>Can we feel safe that none of the Fish disks are infected?
>
>Just to be sure, I'll check all my masters.  But as I understand it, to
>be active the virus has to be on a bootable disk.  Since none of my
>disks are bootable, this wouldn't seem to be a problem.
>
>-Fred
>
   To be specific, the virus is becomes active when your system is started
   (warm or cold) from an infected disk.

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