Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!parsely!agora!billsey From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Virusx bug Message-ID: <1321@agora.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 89 06:48:02 GMT References: <4575@mtgzy.att.com: Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 47 From article <4575@mtgzy.att.com:, by felixc@mtgzy.att.com (Felix Cabral): : I recently purchased a Fred Fish diskette with Virusx on it. I needed it : since I got a visit from the SCA virus. I came across a problem I encountered : using Virusx. I decided to post it in order to get some info on the problem. : If this problem has already been talked about, please excuse me since I'm a : less than six months subscriber to this newsgroup. : : Let me first ask if I do have the SCA virus. I got a bar across my screen : saying "The virus was strong but I am stronger". Other things were printed : including "servo and storeroom boy". After looking at the code I also saw : "LSD!LSD!LSD!LSD!LSD!...". Is this really the SCA virus. Needless to say : it wiped out my disk after all this appeared on the screen. What you have there is a clone of the SCA virus called... The LSD virus! I belive it was created by someone by simply zapping the bootblock of an infected disk. : : Now for the problem. Virusx determined that indeed it was the SCA virus : by giving me a requester asking me if I want to ignore or remove it. I : decided to search my other diskettes. Virusx came up with the requester : if I switched diskettes back to back but only if the first diskette : had the virus and the second had a "nonstandard" boot code. Now, even if : the virus was not on the second diskette Virusx put up the SCA virus : warning. This would not happen if I placed a good diskette in any of the : drives prior to placing the diskette without a standard boot code in any : drive. If instead of finding the SCA virus on the first diskette (as mentioned : above) it found a nonstandard boot code, Virusx would inform me of a : nonstandard boot code on the second diskette. Apparently, a flag somewhere : is not being cleared. : I have version 1.21 of Virusx. There's the solution, get a newer version of VirusX. 1.21 is pretty old. The current version (it even finds and removes the IRQ virus from memory) is version 3.10. It's available on PLink and various BBSes around the country. I imagine it'll be up here soon... : -- : Felix Cabral {felixc@mtgzy.att.com} "Just give me a rad : AT&T Bell Labs { or } wave, a rad board : Middletown,NJ { att!mtgzy!felixc } and a sick day" : 4B-402 (201) 957-5081 -- -Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey ...tektronix!sequent!blowpig!billsey Creative Microsystems Northwest Amiga Group At Home Sometimes (503) 684-9300 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842