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From: akl@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yow! Is this SUPPOSED to be here!?
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Date: 14 Feb 89 06:33:06 GMT
References: <8677@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: akl@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson)
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In article <8677@louie.udel.EDU> smith@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Russ Smith) writes:
>Pardon, but I know little about Warp. Does it contain the above "SCA!..."
>stuff on purpose (like for pattern matching)? I noticed that later on
>it has a string that says something like "Sorry Bud, but this disk is
>infected..." or something.

     As far as I know it is supposed to be there.  I have used Warp both for
compression and decompression a number of times, and on several occasions it
has warned me that the disk was infected with a virus, and identified what
type of virus.  Presumably, that's what the strings are for... checking the
boot block for such strings seems like a convenient way of detecting
specific virus types...

     In any event, I've never known Warp to *introduce* a virus onto any
disk I've un-Warped to, so my opinion is that you shouldn't worry about it.

G'day, eh?
--TS

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