Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!bill
From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virus Author comes forward!!!
Message-ID: <3007@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 19:49:08 GMT
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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	The following is a letter I received from the supposed author of
the SCA virus! I thought some of you might find it interesting. 
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SCA Virus Technical Support
Switzerland / Europe


Bill Koester (CATS)
C.B.M.
1200 Wilson Drive
West Chester PA 19380


SCA's Amiga Virus Protector - the ultimate cure!

Dear Mr Koester,

   Some days ago I read your Article from October 27 on usenet, in which you
are searching for Virus-infected disks.
   I'm the author of the Virus (!), and I think I should tell you some info
about it. It was intended to be a really harmless Virus, which doesn't kill
any software! I programmed it because a friend (also a programmer) told me it 
was impossible to make a virus on the Amiga. I didn't believe this and as you
can see it's not very difficult to make a virus. I put it on some disks
(with "pirate software" on them). but I never thought the virus would be
spread all over the world within 3 months!

   There's only one problem: The number of programs which use the boot-block
of the disk, and as a result of this are killed by the Virus, is getting
higher and higher! So I decided to create the Official SCA Virus Protector !!
With this program you can protect all your disks against the virus, that
means the virus will never copy itself on a protected disk! I think if all
the software houses and public-domain-copy-services use it, the problem
can be solved. You can find the Virus Protector on the disk I enclosed. It
is public domain, so you can give it to anyone you want! (Perhaps it will be 
on Workbench 1.3 or on a Fred Fish disk soon??!!) I think the program is
easy to use, as it has built-in instructions.

Some features of the Virus-Protector V1.0:

. Examine a disk (shows whether a disk in infected and, if it is, displays
the generation of the virus, that's how many times the virus copied itself
before it came to your disk)

. Kill Virus (like the CLI Install command, use this to heal infected disks)

. Protect a disk (to protect all disks which are not infected. Works with
all programs currently on the market!)

   As you probably know, the virus will be deactivated if you press the left
mouse-button while resetting the computer (the screen will turn green for
some seconds).


   I hope the Virus Protector can help you solve the problems my virus caused
If you want more infos (or source-codes) just place a message on the Usenet.
(I don't know whether it would be wise if I gave you my right address...)


					Sincerely

					SCA
PS: Excuse my bad English, but here in Switzerland we speak German!
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