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From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NEW Virus
Message-ID: <6905@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 88 08:44:21 GMT
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Reply-To: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
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Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* klewall1@uvicctr.UUCP (Kim Lewall) wrote:
...A new virus has shown up on the Amiga.

...I called Commodore today and am sending down a copy of the virus for them to
...look at.  Until they have a new VCheck to deal with this one, the only way to
...tell if you have any infected disks is to look at the boot block directly
...with DiskZap, DiskWik or some other block editor.

...Look at block 0.  You will see "Virus by Byte   Bandit in  9.87.Number of
...copys :" if you are infected.

This is a good suggestion for all you VCheck writers out there, how about a 
program that when run will display the boot blocks of a disk in a hex dump
format.  I currently run VCheck from my startup and it would be nice to be
able to have a totally reliable way to check for a boot track virus (since
that is the fad now, no trojan horses this week).

...Let's stamp this one out before it gets anywhere!

...Christopher Halsall
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