| 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 |
I am an Amiga owner for about 2 months. Ive got a few FFish diskettes - one of which includes Master_Virus_KillerV2.0. While using this MVK over the weekend it warned me that I have a virus in memory. I get this message even after a cold start. On the display of the bootblock I get the message "Virus by Byte Bandit in 9.87 number of copies". The kill virus function has no effect. A few of my other disks are infected. I have continued to use some of the disks that were identified as having the virus with nothing unusual happening. In other words if I had not used the MVK I would have assumed everything was working well. I have a very limited knowledge about the whole system so I would appreciate any help as to how I should treat this. Regards Willie
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| 5323.1 | Kill!!! Kill!! | JGODCL::EDERVEEN | If all else fails, read the instructions | Mon Jan 06 1992 08:31 | 15 |
I suggest you boot your system with a disk that you know is absolutely
virus-free. Then start Master_Virus-Killer and check/kill your other
disks.
If you boot a disk which contains a (bootblock)virus, it installes
itself in memory and detects that you try to overwrite the bootblock.
If you do so, it just copies itself over your fresh bootblock and there
he is again.
(most virusses change some pointers in memory and by doing that,
they'll survife(?) a warm-boot/reset, so switch off your computer
before doing this....)
Ave, Frank
P.S. sorry for my bad english. If you want to know what Byte-Bandit
does, I can ask around.
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| 5323.2 | Byte Bandit Exploded | JOCKEY::LUDLAMA | Mon Jan 06 1992 11:53 | 11 | |
I have had some experience of the Byte bandit virus and have found
the following ;
1.Provided you switch off for 30 seconds between loading disks the
virus will not spread.
2.The virus can cause your disks to show a checksum error on booting.
3.I used master virus killer to detect and kill byte bandit.
4.Having killed the virus on disks which still appeared to work ok
the program was not corrupted and I was able to use it again virus free
Regards Arron Ludlam
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