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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus (vaccine - UK mostly)
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Date: 23 Jan 88 18:09:11 GMT
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In article <2104@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
>(Useful bit, at least in the UK) -- A 'virus killer' which *should* deal
>with both the original 'SCA' and the 'mutated CCW' viruses can be got by
>sending a blank 3.5 inch disk, and a stamped address envelope (so they can
>return your disk) to:
>
>    Amiga Virus Killer
>    Silica Shop
     [address omitted]
>Disclaimers: I don't know if the killer works or is safe.  I don't use an
					 ^^^^^    ^^^^^^^
>Amiga.  I have no connection with PCW except as a reader; and I have no
>connection with Silica Shop except that I occasionally buy things from them

A word of caution. The Amiga Virus Killer distributed by Silica AND Amiga
User International (another UK magazine) is "THE VIRUS PROTECTOR V1.0",
Copyright (c) 1987 by the Mega-Mighty Swiss Cracking Association, the same
jerks that created the original viruses.  I understand that this was the
Virus Killer that was sent to Commodore and that Commodore did NOT release
to the nets since it came only in binary form.

Would you trust the people that broke your disks in the first place, without
seeing the source code for the Virus Killer?  Not for me, thank you.

-- Marco