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Offline cgutjahrTopic starter

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Aminet: Virus warning
« on: October 10, 2016, 12:38:00 AM »
Some older software has been uploaded to Aminet for preservation purposes recently, and in the last two days three infected uploads slipped through the virus checking system we have in place. We are very sorry for the inconvience and any problems this might have created on your end.

The files in quesion are:
  • game/actio/MotherLode.adz
  • disk/bakup/PDCopy30.lha
  • util/pack/BytekillerPro10.lha

If you downloaded these files, delete them immediately.
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Offline paul1981

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2016, 09:24:42 AM »
Quote from: cgutjahr;815057
Some older software has been uploaded to Aminet for preservation purposes recently, and in the last two days three infected uploads slipped through the virus checking system we have in place. We are very sorry for the inconvience and any problems this might have created on your end.

The files in quesion are:
  • game/actio/MotherLode.adz
  • disk/bakup/PDCopy30.lha
  • util/pack/BytekillerPro10.lha

If you downloaded these files, delete them immediately.


They do sound suspect!
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Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2016, 10:34:35 PM »
Out of curiosity, which Antivirus software do you use and is it kept up to date?
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Offline QuikSanz

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2016, 11:11:38 PM »
Quote from: pjhutch;815130
Out of curiosity, which Antivirus software do you use and is it kept up to date?


Still only one place for Amiga Virus Help.

" http://www.vht-dk.dk/amiga/download.htm "
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Offline zipper

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2016, 10:06:37 AM »
And last update 2004.
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Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2016, 12:48:54 PM »
What if nasty people develop a new virus for the Amiga? We can not rely on old software. :angry:
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Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2016, 01:33:33 PM »
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Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2016, 01:35:20 PM »
Quote from: pjhutch;815130
Out of curiosity, which Antivirus software do you use and is it kept up to date?

Amiga virus checkers haven't been updated for more than a decade, but the youngest Amiga virus is a lot older than that.

What I use for virus checking is CheckX, a batch utility utilising xvs.library. Plus a bunch of Bash and AmigaDOS scripts for downloading, extracting and invoking FS-UAE (which then runs CheckX).
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Offline Templario

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2016, 05:24:17 PM »
But these virus are old, from OS 1.3 it can infect to OS 3.9? or highter?
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Offline paul1981

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2016, 02:58:59 PM »
Quote from: Templario;815340
But these virus are old, from OS 1.3 it can infect to OS 3.9? or highter?


Yes.
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Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2016, 02:51:12 PM »
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What if nasty people develop a new virus for the Amiga? We can not rely on old software. :angry:


So the answer is to update the antivirus software so that it can detect virus before they are made?
Sort of a chicken and egg question :)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Aminet: Virus warning
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2016, 04:07:39 PM »
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So the answer is to update the antivirus software so that it can detect virus before they are made?
Sort of a chicken and egg question :)


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis
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