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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VirusX
Message-ID: <1754@agora.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 04:03:13 GMT
References: <1410@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk:
Reply-To: billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
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In article <1410@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk: zmacv14@doc.ic.ac.uk (Phil Brown) writes:
:
:Recently, I got attacked (again) by the Lamer Exterminator. Now it was
:immediately found and killed (in memory) by VirusHunter. Then I tried running
:VirusX3.2 (GREAT prog, BTW) on the affected disk to zap it. The boot block
:was not recognised as the LE, just as a non-standard one. So I replaced it
:anyway (all well and good). But VirusX, when I deliberately gave it the LE to
:kill in memory, it discovered it and killed it and ... software error, CRASH!

	Remember that there are *two* seperate verisons of Lamer Exterminator.
VirusX3.20 only found the first one, the second one would show as just a 
custom boot block. 4.00 now finds both.

:Cheers,
:
:Phil


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