hrlaser@pnet01.cts.com (Harv Laser) (03/23/90)
This is cross-posted from American People/Link's AmigaZone Club where
Steve Tibbett, author of VirusX, is a Sysop. Feel free to repost this
entire article anywhere and everywhere providing you keep it intact.
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Club : AMIGA ZONE Sec: 2
Date : 3/22/90 19:59 Num: 63,234
Theme: VIRUSX 4.4
To : ALL By : STEVEX
Title: WHAT IT IS
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A bogus version of VirusX has appeared recently, and has begun circulating
under the name "VirusX 4.4".
VirusX 4.4 is not by me, but it's not something to worry about if you
have run it. VirusX 4.4 is a VirusX 4.0 archive that has been slightly
modified by somebody who obviously doesn't know anything about C, nor
programming the Amiga (based on some of the things he says).
The 4.4 archive contains a VirusX.Docs that has a new "Virus"
appended to the docs, has a longer description of this virus appended
to the source file, had some punctuation moved around in the source
file, and had the 4.00 version number patched to 4.40.
That's it. If you have it, don't use it because you'll just confuse
yourself. Please don't pass it on.
The only places that I normally personally upload VirusX to are
my own BBS (OMX, at 613-731-3419), and People/Link.
I will have a new version of VirusX with a few new features, and knowledge
a number of new viruses, to release within the next few days.
On another VirusX-related topic, some people have noticed that XOPER
reports that VirusX uses an incredible amount of CPU time (between 40% and
60% of the available CPU time) for a program that's supposed to run in the
background. Well, VirusX is pretty nice to the Amiga system so checked it
out with Commodore's PerfMon (PM) from the 1.3 Extras disk, and it reports
that VirusX takes almost no processor time. I trust PM.
...Steve
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