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From: msperry@rose.waterloo.edu (Mark Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: virusx
Message-ID: <21945@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 21:24:53 GMT
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In article <11054@saturn.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
>I finally got my A2000HD/PC via the educational discount & set it up this
>weekend. Everything is working very well except for virusx 4.0. In spite of
>the fact that I am running the program 'ZeroClear' in the startup-sequence
>before calling virusx it reports that the boot vector is not zero when
>loaded and asks if I want to clear it (or something like that, I forget the
>exact wording). Does anyone know what causes this and if there is a fix
>available. Thanks.

This is caused by the 1meg of chip ram happily seated inside your Ami :-)
There is a setpatch command in your startup that points this out to the
operating system, and VirusX4.0 reports it. Until a new version of VirusX or
1.4 comes out, just ignore the messages. Anyone else have a better solution?
Later...

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