Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: virus, ARRRG! (really a virus-eating-virus)
Message-ID: <4361@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 21:33:00 GMT
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Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <10081@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> soo@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chong L Soo) writes:
>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?  

Before anyone flames about that posting, what I think he is suggesting is
something like what I hope the VCheck 2.0 will do -- hang around in memory
and restore itself after boots, examine the boot block of all bootable disks
you insert, warn you of a non-standard one, and ask you if it should re-install
that disk. Commercial games would be safe, and you wouldn't keep having to
run install yourself.

John
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