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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IRQ Virus
Message-ID: <10419@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 10:18:07 GMT
References: <917@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The CIA:  International Meddling at Bargain Rates.
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Quote: "We've come at the worst possible time -- of course."  -- Avon

In article <917@ubu.warwick.UUCP> ekg@warwick.UUCP (Kevan Gelling) writes:
>Can the PROTECT command be used to stop the IRQ virus attaching itself
>to executable commands ??
>
	No.  The IRQ virus does a SetProtection() on the file in question to
make it read/writeable.

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