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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virusx 3.1 bug (was Re: Virusx bug)
Message-ID: <10585@gryphon.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 18:40:19 GMT
Sender: root@gryphon.COM
Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA.
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jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>The .zoo file contains the executable, the zoo-ed source, a .doc file and
>a readme file as well as the kv stuff mentioned above.
>
>I read the .doc file, it was all about version 3.0 I installed virusx3.1
>and then read the readme file. THE README FILE SAYS VIRUSX SHOULD BE
>11374 BYTES (or something close to that). I SIZED MINE AND IT WAS
>11589 (or something close)!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRGH. I ran kv on it and it said there
>was no virus here. Furthermore, I always write protect my system disk,
>I downloaded, unzoo-ed, and executed it all from VD0: and I didn't get
>any of the normal IRQ virus symptoms.
>
>Does anybody know what gives?
 
Yes. What gives is that when Steve Tibbett fixed VirusX 3.0 and turned
it into 3.1, he forgot to do the same for the readme file. 
 
VirusX 3.1, the executable program, should be 11948 bytes. 

If you upload VirusX31.ZOO to other BBSes or pay systems please fix the
readme file in the ZOOchive (well, it's not an ARChive :-) to show the
correct byte count.  The copy we have on People/Link in the AmigaZone
has been corrected.
 
Also, if you see VirusX 3.0 on any services or BBSes please inform the
sysop to remove it.  It has some real problems and should not be
propogated.  3.1 fixes those problems.

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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