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Subject: Re: Club pirating orgies (planting viruses: The Amiga Lamer
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Date: 20 Feb 90 19:10:50 GMT
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From: rhunt@icard.med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)
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     The Amiga world is already the unfortunate victim of a virus that was
apparantly meant as an attack on pirates called "lamers", hence the name
Lamer Exterminator.  It works by screwing up diskcopies (only) by, I
believe, writing the word "LAMER" to random blocks during a diskcopy.
Needless to say this virus rapidly escaped the bounds of pirates and is in
the general Amiga community.  I am not sure who I would consider the
bigger scumbuckets,  big time pirates or destructive virus programmers,
so it is hard to decide the lesser of these two evils.

     BTW, I think that a lamer is a type of pirate who just passes the
disks around but doesn't do any cracking or the other hard stuff
himself.

					former ST owner who liked the
					computer but not the companies
					policies,
					Rick Hunt