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From: cthkl@tekno.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: <None>
Message-ID: <551@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 15 Feb 89 07:55:03 GMT
References: <8677@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <8677@louie.udel.EDU>, smith@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Russ Smith) writes:
> [this note sent to the generic Internet address "amiga-relay"]
> 
> I just FTPed over to xanth and grabbed the AmigaUUCP files (two arc
> files containing individually two WARP files. Contained in file 2
> was a readme and an executable, warp, as well).
> 
> Well, I just did a "strings" command (UNIX machine) of the warp executable and
> saw:
> 
> 		.
> 		.
> 		.
> 	
> 	\ORm
> 	T@2-
> 	TON]NuSCA!SCA!
> 	Virus by Byte
> 	LSD!LSD!
> 	Byte Bandit
> 	                              %sWARP v1.2A:
> 	%s                   A floppy disk %stracker%s and %scompressor%s.%s
> 	                  ---------------------------------------%s
> 	READ
> 	Bad arguments for READ.
> 		.
> 		.
> 		.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anywho, I won't be dewarping those files til I get a good answer...
> 
> Thanks for any response.
> ===========================================================
> 
> 		     ...uunet!mimsy!nrl-aic!hengeema!smith
> 		   /			    ^^^^^^^^
> Russ Smith - a.k.a. 			       |
> 		   \			       |--- Amiga!
> 		     smith@aic.nrl.navy.mil