Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!bill
From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: virus, ARRRG!
Message-ID: <3110@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 18:16:16 GMT
References: <10081@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10081@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> soo@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chong L Soo) writes:
>Say, what are the differences between the two strains of SCA virus?
>
The second strain of SCA is just the first strain with different text.

>I was wondering, since the SCA virus is harmless (sort of), if we let it
>hang around, wouldn't that stop any future versions of (perhaps harmful)
>virus that uses the boot block also?  I mean, the good (sort of) virus
>would have the control of the computer on reboot if it got there before
>the bad virus.  (Sorry)
The two known strains of SCA will write over each other. ie infect machine
with strain 1 then boot with a disk that has strain 2 on it. Strain 1
will overwrite strain 2 and vice versa.

Say you infect the machine with SCA #1 and then warm boot with a disk
that has a harmful virus on it (that works the same way). Then concievably
SCA #1 would overwrite the nasty virus thereby destroying it. I don't
recommend this, however. What about when you boot you game and forget
that SCA is in memory? Goodbye game. Your still better off with no virus's.



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