Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VIRUS ANSWERS
Message-ID: <4341@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 13:33:34 GMT
References: <3081@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <3081@cbmvax.UUCP> bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) writes:
>DO THIS THAT THE OTHER THING IN VCheck:
>
>	All V1.x versions of VCheck where quick and dirty hacks to
>	get a detector into the user community. VCheck2.0 is now
>	in the works and will be much smarter than its predecessors

Another thing that would be good (especially in light of people saying "I
never boot except off a write-protected Workbench after cold starting my
machine while wearing a condom" :-) would be a program called "reboot" that
would tell you if your WarmStart vector had been altered, and force your
machine through the normal C-A-A procedure. Maybe it could also check all
romtags or whatever methods people use to preserve information across boots.

BTW, I was unable to find a change-Kickstart program around here so I tried to
write one using a function called "ColdReset" which is documented in one book
I have. But it doesn't seem to exist. Is/was there such a system call anywhere?

John
-- 
"I hate to be the one to tell you this, Bryce, but there's more to life than
 interactive systems analysis."
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