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From: C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Brian E Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: On Viruses...
Message-ID: <6220@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 89 15:01:01 GMT
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Well I have been sitting here reading all your ways of catching the
virus, and like everyone else I have my own thinking.  First I am not
familiar with the program or exactly what it is, but if my understanding
is correct it is an animation demo. Also it has a size of 1.5M.

First consider what we download this beast on.  In my case two floppies,
some to their hard drive.  Now, what I would do is, (and always do when
using a piece of software that I am unfamiliar with) throw the R/W tab on
the diskette.  If the program gives me a prompt saying the diskette is R/W
protected, then I make sure I have a backup copy of it and reverse the R/W
tab.

Nice you say but what if I have a hard disk and that is where it is?  I think
(not for sure) that there is a new command in 1.3 called LOCK that will
Write protect your hard disk.

How good or bad does this sound?

Brian E Whitman