[comp.virus] New Virus ? Smiley Virus - Amiga

borzieri@king.ICO.Olivetti.Com (Ivan Borzieri) (03/19/91)

I was playing with my WB disk when the mouse pointer turned into a
PacMan like object, with a scrolling message under it saying something
like :

"This is a new virus from Centurions, and it's called Smiley Virus.
It seems that some of your disks have been infected !"

I tried to take it away with ZeroVirus III, but it did not recognize it.
I took a look into memory, using VMK tool, included in DW 1.2.
I saw that there was something like "startup-sequence", ares, etc.

Looking in my startup-sequence, I saw that the first command was
"Ares", so I thought the virus had copied itself in that command. I
reinstalled Arp on the infected disk (to prevent the virus had
infected some other command).  Then I turned down the machine and
bootstrapped from the infected disk.  Looking in memory with VMK gave
"No Virus Present" as result, so I felt immediately happy !

Anyway, I'd just love to know which is the latest Anti-Virus for The Amy.

								Thanx,
								Ivan Borzieri