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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Ral-Clan on February 28, 2013, 04:15:00 AM
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I'd like to smack that guy who wrote the ebola virus.
Here I am setting up an Amiga 500 with a hard drive in the year 2013, and it starts acting funny (lots of GURU 80000003's - like when trying to start Hippoplayer).
I run VirusX (correction: VirusZ) on it and sure enough, it's riddled with infections of the Ebola virus all over many of the files. VirusZ removed them all, and now everything is running fine.
To think a frikkin' 20 year old virus is still causing headaches. They just never go away.
Seeing that made me think I should check my WinUAE "virtual" A4000 productivity setup, and sure enough, there were some instances of the Ebola virus there too (far less, but still some).
Dang!
Moral: check your Amigas for viruses and have VirusX in your Startup drawer if you can.
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wow .. unreal.. note to self.. /me looks for Virusx
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LOL
virus' are fun. A great way to learn more about your Amiga. Rip that sucker out of memory and dissassemble it.
I kinda liked the game Virus as well, the mouse control was hard to master but very rewarding. Similar to Zeewolf 1 and 2... great games!
Az
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Yep, had some fun about 15 years ago - about 1000 infected files, yet VT fixed the HD in no time. But some cold shivers rose first...
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I did this with a old DOS machine and it had the AIDS virus. I lost many hard drives to this.
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Just for accuracy's sake I should state that I used VirusZ, not VirusX as I had written in my original post.
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virus' are fun. A great way to learn more about your Amiga.
:crazy:
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:crazy:
+1