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From: U613127@HNYKUN11.BITNET ("Olaf Seibert ", temporary account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
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Date: 15 Jan 88 14:27:41 GMT
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> From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
> Message-ID: <3089@cbmvax.UUCP>
>   The SCA virus is thought to have entered the US on a cracked copy of a game
>   called "Mouse Trap".

I think it is also very likely that it was on a cracked copy of Garrison.
(cracked by SCA of course...)
That's where it started in Europe, to my best knowledge.
By the way, the reason that is doesn't work 'properly' on a 2000 is,
that it relocates itself into the supervisor stack, that it assumes
to be at the end of the first 512K of memory. On a 2000 with $C<many 0s>
memory, I think the stack is somewhere else -> crash.

Oh, and one slightly related subject... Oreo is not morerows-compatible.
It opens a screen (opens Intuition?) before the preferences are
installed, or something like that.

Over here, there are also plenty of custom-made kickstarts, for instance
to zap the xxxCapture vectors and resident modules and all of those
thinks. It is very effective, and also kills Oreo.   There are versions
with another <insert workbench> prompt, and that automatically open
a 640x256 CLI window at startup, and/or configure the second 512K
as non-CHIP memory. That is useful for ppl that have a simple memory
expansion on the 256K port.


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Olaf Seibert.