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From: techrat@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (James S. Burwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WARNING WARNING WARNING!!! Warp may be contain a virus.
Message-ID: <166@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 17 Feb 89 04:48:38 GMT
References: <8902141947.AA00347@gallux.GALLAUDET.EDU>
Reply-To: techrat@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (James S. Burwell)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Jolnet, Public Access Unix, Orland Park (Joliet), Ill.
Lines: 34

file, and found this (Amigados "type opt h" output):

1170: 4E5D4E75 53434121 53434121 00566972    N]NuSCA!SCA!.Vir
1180: 75732062 79204279 7465004C 5344214C    us by Byte.LSD!L
1190: 53442100 53434100 42797465 2042616E    SD!.SCA.Byte Ban
11A0: 64697400 4C534400 0A202020 20202020    dit.LSD..


Bits of the familiar (hopefully not THAT familiar!) virus strings.  Further
down in the file, however, you will find this:

1670: 0A004E6F 20776179 20425544 2E205468    ..No way BUD. Th
1680: 69732064 69736B20 68617320 74686520    is disk has the
1690: 25732056 69727573 210A0A00 424F5400    %s Virus!...BOT.
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1860: 2C206865 61642025 640A0A00 54686973    , head %d...This
1870: 2066696C 6520636F 6E746169 6E732074     file contains t
1880: 68652025 73205669 72757321 202D2D20    he %s Virus! --
1890: 496E7374 616C6C20 6469736B 20626566    Install disk bef
18A0: 6F726520 7573696E 672E0A0A 0A005472    ore using.....Tr

Apparently, Warp checks for the presence of some viruses before it will
pack a disk.


techrat

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