smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) (03/14/91)
I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it: Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the escape key to see its contents, then after that the mouse movements become opposite. That is when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes down and so forth Also, what is the equivalency for ATARI low and medium resolution to Macintosh? (like is low res the same as 8 bit Macintosh graphics?)
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) (03/14/91)
smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: >Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the >escape key to >see its contents, then after that the mouse movements become opposite. That is >when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes down and so forth This is a bootsector virus. Use a virus killer program to examine all your disks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (03/15/91)
smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: - I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it: - - Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the - escape key to see its contents, then after that the mouse movements - become opposite. That is when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes - down and so forth You sure do have a bug! You have the mouse inversion virus. :^) Every fifth time you swap disks, the mouse will, as you say, go up instead of down and down instead of up. Neat little critter. I highly recommend you get a copy of George Woodside's Virus Killer. I think the latest version is 3.81. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) (03/15/91)
In article <1991Mar14.141408.14532@ncsu.edu> smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: > >I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it: > >Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the >escape key to >see its contents, then after that the mouse movements become opposite. That is >when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes down and so forth > George Woodside describes exactly this as the effect of one of the viruses. Get the files from atari/virus at atari.archive.umich.edu. -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp
ggranger@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Greg Granger) (03/15/91)
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: > > - I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it: > - > - Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the > - escape key to see its contents, then after that the mouse movements > - become opposite. That is when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes > - down and so forth > > You sure do have a bug! You have the mouse inversion virus. :^) > Every fifth time you swap disks, the mouse will, as you say, go up > instead of down and down instead of up. Neat little critter. I > highly recommend you get a copy of George Woodside's Virus Killer. I > think the latest version is 3.81. > > > -- > Ed Krimen ............................................... > ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico > ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 > / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0 Could you send me a copy of 3.81? I have an older copy of Vkiller (3.11). It would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I don't have FTP from my site, so I can't logon to terminator.cc.umich.edu to get it. Greg Granger = INet: ersys!ggranger@nro.cs.athabascau.ca = = Fnet: Greg Granger (Node 532) Dark Knight (Node 595)= = Post: 5906-188 Street Edmonton, AB Canada T6M-2A9 = = Tele: +1 403 481-0803 OR +1 403 481-5110 =
robotron@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine) (03/19/91)
In comp.sys.atari.st, smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: >I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it: >Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the >escape key to see its contents, then after that the mouse movements become >opposite. That is when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes down and so >forth. I found this would happen every fifth time I swapped disks and pressed ESC. Originally I thought it was a bug in TOS, but then I found my favourite disk had an executable bootsector. This virus seems to be otherwise harmless and can be killed with any disk utility which allows you to toggle bootsector executability. I got NoiseTracker v1.5 recently. I'm sure it's public domain, so should I try to upload it to atari.archive? There's nothing in any of the documentation which suggests I shouldn't distribute it, but there's nothing which says I should either. It's a wonderful piece of software - I use it on my STe to play Sound/NoiseTracker modules I've downloaded from a couple of Amiga Games Machine anonymous FTP sites (ab20.larc.nasa.gov and mars.ee.msstate.edu). NB if you reply via email, use one of the addresses in my .signature. -- UUCP: ..!uunet!nsf.ac.uk!tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk!robotron BITNET: robotron%tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk@UKACRL INTERNET: robotron%tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu JANET: robotron@uk.ac.ed.cs.tardis
brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) (03/20/91)
In article <9103191745.AA09197@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> robotron@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine) writes: >In comp.sys.atari.st, smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes: > >I got NoiseTracker v1.5 recently. I'm sure it's public domain, so should I ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >try to upload it to atari.archive? There's nothing in any of the >documentation which suggests I shouldn't distribute it, but there's nothing >which says I should either. It's a wonderful piece of software - I use it >on my STe to play Sound/NoiseTracker modules I've downloaded from a couple >of Amiga Games Machine anonymous FTP sites (ab20.larc.nasa.gov and I would double-check that, because I know the Amiga version was NOT in the public domain. I would think the same would be true for the ST. >UUCP: ..!uunet!nsf.ac.uk!tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk!robotron -- __ Brett Bourbin \ / /(_ /\/ 11440 Commerce Park Drive ..!uunet!visix!brett \/ / __)/ /\ Reston, Virginia 22091 brett@visix.com Software Inc (703) 758-2733
chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul) (03/23/91)
In-Reply-To: message from robotron@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk i used to get bugs like that mouse virus mostly on east coast diosk i get. ---- ProLine: chuckie@pro-odyssey Internet: chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-odyssey!chuckie ARPA: crash!pro-odyssey!chuckie@nosc.mil