Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Benton_J_Elkins
From: Benton_J_Elkins@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re:ByteWarrior
Message-ID: <8955@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Sep 88 00:56:56 GMT
References: <28381@neabbs.UUCP>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3040

I just had my first encounter with a virus in 33 years of programming. I had
done some downloads from Portal, Just Computing and another bbs that I can't
remember right now.
After I had de-arced some of the files I decided to format a disk and noticed
that only sectors 0 and 1 would format with 78 left. I checked with HT Elec-
tronics who had not heard of this phenomenon. To be safe I dl'ed VirusX ver-
sion 2.0 and installed it.
VirusX found the Byte  Bandit virus in Ram and on all three of my disks in
my drives. I then checked the other disks and found several more occurences
of Byte Bandit.
I am very grateful to Steve Tibbet for his VirusX program and intend to con-
tact him to tell him so. I wonder if anyone else noticed my symptom of a
failure to Format connected with this virus