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Title: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Henricborg on October 12, 2009, 10:41:29 AM

Hello.

I have a question.

I have an Amiga500 1.3 kickrom with extra 512KB Ram memory with battery on it.
If i have a Virus in memory, will it stay there even if i shut down my Amiga on Main power button (on the power supply)?

Best Regards / Borg

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: amiga1260 on October 12, 2009, 11:00:31 AM

The virus will be gone, when you switch off your Amiga. You could prevent this by using a virus killer.

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Henricborg on October 12, 2009, 11:10:10 AM

When i'm using VirusX 4.5 it tells me that i have "Australian Parasite Virus" in memory. :(

VirusX ask me if i whant to removit from memory. I shouse YES. Then i close VirusX and then startit upp agian without rebooting, and its says the same thing again "Australian Parasite Virus" in memory.  :(

And this abouve i tryed with out my extra 512KB ram installed.

How can i removit with my Amiga500 1.3 kickrom, no HDD ?

You can read about the Virus on this Link: http://amigaviruses.wikidot.com/australian-parasite-the

Please Help Me....

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: gertsy on October 12, 2009, 11:30:31 AM

The virus is coming from a diskette.
Scan all the disks you were using at the time and clean(un-infect) them.
Once a diskette is uninfected remove it.
If you reboot with a virus in memory it will just write to the diskette.
If you put another diskette in the drive with a virus in memory it will write to it.
It is quite easy to spread a virus to many disks in a single session.

Those Australian Parasite Viruses are the worst, It is so hard to ship them back to NZ.. (Just joshing)

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: meega on October 12, 2009, 11:38:15 AM

Just be thankful that you haven't got LAMER... :)

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Henricborg on October 12, 2009, 04:10:57 PM

Quote from: gertsy;525642

The virus is coming from a diskette.
Scan all the disks you were using at the time and clean(un-infect) them.
Once a diskette is uninfected remove it.
If you reboot with a virus in memory it will just write to the diskette.
If you put another diskette in the drive with a virus in memory it will write to it.
It is quite easy to spread a virus to many disks in a single session.

Those Australian Parasite Viruses are the worst, It is so hard to ship them back to NZ.. (Just joshing)

But how do i remove the virus from the diskette? its still there even if a do a cold start off my Amiga ? :(
VirusX4.5 just ask me to remove it from memory, not from the diskette.

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Boot_WB on October 12, 2009, 04:21:18 PM

Quote from: Henricborg;525680

But how do i remove the virus from the diskette? its still there even if a do a cold start off my Amiga ? :(
VirusX4.5 just ask me to remove it from memory, not from the diskette.

From where are you loading VirusX after a cold reboot? Hard drive? Floppy disk?

Could the disk containing VirusX be the source of your virus?

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Henricborg on October 12, 2009, 09:33:26 PM

Unfortshunly both VirusX diskette and Workbench disks are infected. :(

But why can't i remove the virus from the boot sector if i use VirusX ?

Title: Re: Virus in Memory ?
Post by: Matt_H on October 12, 2009, 10:17:29 PM

I don't have any experience with viruses, but would installing a clean boot block on the disk (from Shell: install df0: ) and powering down get rid of it?