| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Which is the best virus killer for hard drives?
I've always used virus x, but that only seems to check floppies, or am
I missing something? I suppose you could argue that if all floppies are
clean you'd never get a virus onto your hard disk.
I'm sure some smart alex virus writer would have sussed that anyhow!
Cheers,
Greg
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| 4810.1 | Help is at hand..... | VIVIAN::D_VISTUER | Tue Jun 11 1991 06:58 | 9 | |
Greg,
Have a look at the files I uploaded in note 4798.0. There is a
program called CHk_virus517.lzh (or something like that) .It checks for
various linkable viruses on floppies, Ramdisk or harddrives.
Have fun.
Dave V.
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| 4810.2 | BOMBE::MOORE | Amiga: Where 'multimedia' REALLY began | Tue Jun 11 1991 16:23 | 3 | |
Also note that boot block viruses are usually not an issue on hard
drives because their booting process is different and does not execute
any code from there.
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| 4810.3 | Could I be infected? | OZROCK::BATH | Say NO to Streamline. | Thu Sep 19 1991 09:19 | 23 |
I've just run up ZeroVirus (off a fish disk, via decwrl::) and it
complains that my...
ColdCapture vector is $0fe7b0, should be 0.
It then goes on to state that some legit. programs do use these
vectors, and that this may or may not be a virus, and finally, it gives
you the option of clearing it, or leaving it the way it is.
I commented all the "specials" (e.g. dmouse etc.) out of my
startup-sequence and rebooted. ZeroVirus was then the first program I
ran. Again it made the same complaint. If I boot off floppy, it would
seem my ColdCapture vector stays at 0 (i.e. no complaints), but
whenever I boot off the hd it complains.
What is a ColdCapture vector?
Is this likely to be a *real* virus, or a false alarm?
Does anyone else out there use ZeroVirus, and if so, do they have this
problem? (in case it's relevant, I have a 2000 HD)
thanks in advance,
dB.
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| 4810.4 | VirusX to the rescue | OZROCK::BATH | Say NO to Streamline. | Thu Sep 19 1991 09:38 | 21 |
Hmmm... VirusX may have an answer. If I run it up, it complains of the
same thing, but if I use the -r option:
-r Use this if you've 1 meg Chip RAM and using SetPatch -r
(which I do) then it is quite happy. Strangely enough, ZeroVirus
claims to be able to cope with this...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Changes v1.15
ZeroVirus now recognises the changes to system vectors made by SetPatch
r on
machines with the super Agnus chip, and does not complain about them.
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Maybe there's some ZeroVirus switch I don't know about?
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| 4810.5 | exit | LODGE::LEN | David M. Len | Thu Sep 19 1991 10:24 | 3 |
VirusX complains about the "Cold capture" whenever I do a warm reboot
with a RAD disk mounted. Are you using a "recoverable ram disk" of
some kind?
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| 4810.6 | No, only non-recoverable I think. | OZROCK::BATH | Say NO to Streamline. | Thu Sep 19 1991 11:07 | 12 |
I don't think so, but then I'm a bit new to all this AmigaDOS stuff.
I take it there are non-recoverable (RAM:) and recoverable (RAD:)
disks? In that case, I only seem to have the non-recoverable one
mounted:
2.Workbench:test info
Mounted disks:
Unit Size Used Free Full Errs Status Name
DF0: 880K 7 1751 0% 0 Read/Write Empty
RAM: 2K 4 0 100% 0 Read/Write RAM DISK
DH0: 51M 35189 66876 34% 0 Read/Write Workbench
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