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From: nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT WARNING ... Amiga Virus Lo - (nf)
Message-ID: <423@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 16:20:00 EST
Article-I.D.: ndmath.423
Posted: Tue Oct 27 16:20:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 05:29:01 EST
References: <15000002@altger.UUCP> <411@suadb.UUCP> <4306@well.UUCP>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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In article <4306@well.UUCP>, ans@well.UUCP (Anne Schweizer) writes:
> Ok, but did you ever Heard of THE WRITE PROTECT TAB ???

Some commercial, copy-protected, bootblock-needing programs require the tab to
be off in order to carry out their various nefarious schemes.

> And by the way, if you really have to use a disk which needs the bootblock
> so press the left mouse button while resetting.. 

Yes, but forget once, and it's goodbye software.

> I have the Virus on several Disks, but i don't panic about it...
> (Males are ever scared about nothing !.)

If I had the virus, I certainly would panic about it.  Whose word do we have
that it might not do something extremely nasty?  Better to get rid of it
than have a potential REAL trojan.

Even worse, suppose this virus turns out to be completely harmless.  What if
someone releases a virus that *looks* the same but is deadly?  Much better
to be safe from the beginning.

> 
> No_smiling_faces_or_other_signatures_available
> 
> UUCP: ...lll-lcc!well!ans

nj
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