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Title: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: cgutjahr 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:

If you downloaded these files, delete them immediately.
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: paul1981 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!
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: pjhutch on October 11, 2016, 10:34:35 PM
Out of curiosity, which Antivirus software do you use and is it kept up to date?
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: QuikSanz 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 "
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: zipper on October 12, 2016, 10:06:37 AM
And last update 2004.
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: AmiDude 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:
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: Acill on October 12, 2016, 01:33:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bac84Ibo_y4
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: cgutjahr 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).
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: Templario 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?
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: paul1981 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.
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: amyren on October 17, 2016, 02:51:12 PM
Quote from: AmiDude;815166
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 :)
Title: Re: Aminet: Virus warning
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on October 17, 2016, 04:07:39 PM
Quote from: amyren;815425
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