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From: ghewes@bbn.com (Gerald Hewes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VIRUS DAMAGE, CONSEQUENCES (Hate Mail)
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Date: 8 Jan 90 13:58:49 GMT
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Reply-To: ghewes@spca.bbn.com (Gerald Hewes)
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------------ Help ------------

 This weekend I was bitten by a D***ed virus.
Its probably an old known one because I suspect
I caught from a FISH disk from 200-250.
 The virus is attached to the executables and adds
exactly 1124 bytes to them. I have not yet figured
out what damages it does. It managed to get at MOST
of my executables (99% of those in my path were hit,
much less out of the path). It has even affected executables
I know I have not run in the last year. Also some (=10%)
of the executables will no longer run, guruing my AMIGA.

 Could somebody reply to me in e-mail if this is a 
classic(!) or on the net if it may be of interest to
others. I am mostly interested in the effect it has and 
the way it spreads to help me cleanup my disk. It is
not the IRQ virus.

----------- Hate -----------

 Of course I am really annoyed by those virus 
(understatement). I will now lose many hours
cleaning up my whole disk. I cannot use my backups
because they are too recent (!). For once I made one 
1 hr before detecting the problem.
I now have to roam through my disk, and manage to remember
where I got each executable from, recompiling all my code,...
Just reinstalling all the commercial software is already
a slow process.
 
 Making a virus is not a great act of computing. Its 20th a
century crime and should be punished because it causes
economic disruptions.

 If I knew the author I would wield my AXE. Not to cut his
head! Thats's for the justice to decide, but to smash his
amiga back to the stone age.