[comp.sys.amiga] My Ami Caught a Virus

briang@hp-sdd.hp.com (Brian Gragg) (01/04/90)

Hi netter,

Last night my A500 caught a virus.  I don't think its a new kind but I
would like to hear what people have to tell me about it.  First, I know
this has been discussed recently but then I didn't have 1) a hard drive and
2) ftp access.  

The virus infected my SETPATCH by changing it from 3xxx bytes to 5xxx bytes
long.  It showed up by guruing w/ 0000000B.00C06298 whatever that is.  I
don't know what program gave me the virus.  I was working with some stuff
I'ld gotten from the fish disks at mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu.  It could have
been them or a time release from somewhere else.

What I'd like is to hear more about were it may have come from, how to make
sure it's gone, comment, etc.  Please E-mail since this is probably old
stuff to most of you.  I'll post a summary if there is any interest.  I had
virusX 3.2 which didn't catch it and virusx 4.0 didn't see anything wrong
with the disk after the fact.

Thanks,  Brian    ( I was panicing for a while but I'm better now! )



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