Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!pollux!bjc
From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LAZARUS virus !?!?
Keywords: virus lazarus
Message-ID: <13564@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 06:14:24 GMT
References: <202@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: bjc@pollux.UUCP ()
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275
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In article <202@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> packer@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Mike Packer) writes:
>
>	I have recently stumbled on to a disk that has something (virus)
>called LAZARUS.  I would like to know if anyone has a virus detector or
>killer that can handle this.  The virus detectors/killers that I have
>now do not seem to handle this and they only seem to handle the SCA virus.

That is no virus! You have used DiskDoctor on a disk that had a bad root 

block.  When DiskDoctor can't read the name of the disk, it renames it
as Lazarus - indicating a resurrected disk.

Betty