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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

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

1615.0. "LSD virus" by AYOV10::ATHOMSON (C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie) Mon Aug 22 1988 07:57

    I was delighted (sic) this weekend to discover that I had a minor
    infection of the LSD virus, it only hit three disks before it was
    discovered (and eradicated). For interests sake, does anyone know
    what it's effects would have been if I'd not discovered it ? (I
    really didn't want to find out the hard way !!).
    
    					Alan T.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1615.1		TRUCKS::CHANT	Something different	`Mon Aug 22 1988 10:07`	8
	Well done, but do you know where it came from ? As an aside I follow a few of the personal computer conferences from these reports the Amiga seems particularly prone to Viruss or should that be virae. Adrian
1615.2	Oh yes !	AYOV10::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Mon Aug 22 1988 12:02`	8
1615.3		BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Mon Aug 22 1988 14:15`	7
	re: .1 The Amiga isn't particularly prone to viruses as computers go. It's just that finding a virus is a new experience for a lot of Amiga owners. -Dave
1615.4	What does LSD do ??	AYOV10::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Tue Aug 23 1988 10:59`	9
	Does anyone know what it would have done ???? Alan T. BTW it was picked up by Guardian - a warm-boot surviving boot block checker, (it modifies the hand and disk screen to let you know it's in there) which picks up on non-standard boot blocks and asks whether or not to give control to it, if you give it control, Guardian will also warn you if the ExecBase has been modified. Very useful.
1615.5	new virus?	KBOMFG::HAUCK		`Tue Aug 23 1988 14:00`	13
	Virus questions: How can you dedect the LSD virus and what affect has the virus? Last week I dedect a new virus (I have no name for this virus) that shows no message. It's a bootblock-virus. The only action I have dedect is the following: Everytimes you want to format a disk you get while initialising a system request: key 880 already set. This only happens if you format with wour external drive and the disk is not acceptet as a DOS-disk. I live in Bavarian and know one other user with this virus. Has anyone experience with this virus? -Jochen
1615.6		BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Tue Aug 23 1988 22:57`	12
	re: .4 Is Guardian public domain? if so, available on the enet somewhere? While I'm not too thrilled about a "good" virus, it would be nice to have something watching for some program modifying the OS. (viruses don't have to be in boot sectors, innocent looking programs can contain them - haven't seen any so far, but the ibmpc world is full of gems like that) -Dave
1615.7	Shareware !	AYOV10::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Wed Aug 24 1988 07:56`	7
1615.8	Well?	SNOC01::SIMPSON	Those whom the Gods would destroy...	`Thu Sep 01 1988 03:42`	2
	But what does it do?????
1615.9	Got it yet?	RAVEN1::EVERHART		`Fri Sep 16 1988 19:27`	6
	re .7 Hey, did you upload the Guardian yet? If so, where is it? Enquiring minds want to know. Chris
1615.10	no modem	AYOV10::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Mon Sep 19 1988 07:57`	6
	No, sorry, but I still don't have a modem..... I have the arc file all prepared though........ Alan T. P.S. I noticed that it does appear on a recent Fish disk.