Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tope
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ByteBandits again
Message-ID: <3090@enea.se>
Date: 21 Apr 88 15:20:42 GMT
References: <682@inria.UUCP>
Reply-To: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Keywords: VirusX DANGER!
UUCP-Path: uunet!enea!tope


In article <682@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:
>
>Yet another bad news about ByteBandits Virus !
>
>Starting from a safe machine, running VirusX.
>Insert a ByteBandits-infected disk (boot-block presents the infamous message,
>and usual symptoms when booting from this disk)
>Nothing happens ! (I thought VirusX would show up the 'usual' requester)
>
>BTW, VCheck1.9 detects a non-standard boot-code.
>

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Is VirusX a general virus finder/killer?
I just got a "ByteBandit Virus Killer" program that just looks
for that partical virus in one mode, looks for non-standard
boot blocks in another mode and has an "install" option to write
a new standard boot block to a diskette.

It didn't find any ByteBandits on my diskettes, so I still don't
know if it works.

What exactly does the ByteBandit do, more than freezing the machine?
The information I have read differs from different sources. Will it
eat up data on the hard disk?