selling some Amiga stuff...

[FastRobPlus]

Yeah, that's wacky.  The world's first hardware firewall?



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[d]Amiga cats don't get Microsoft worms![/d]
Amiga cats get bootblock viruses, and they can't play "Shadow of the Beast" anymore.  
Stupid SCA - I wanna punch them!

[FastRobPlus]

I worked for an Amiga retailer.  This was a semi-big problem for us.  Lots of badwill generated when we had to include a disclaimer with Amiga games sales stating that we won't accept returns if a virus is detected on the disk.  DOS and ST games didn't have this isssue (or at least, we never saw it.)  I think Mac had the issue, but we didnt sell many Mac games.

We did have a great free virus blocker back then.  It was: "power the computer off and wait 30 seconds"

[FastRobPlus]

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PCs had bootblock viruses
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I would not dispute that.  But back then, they didn't result in customers returning games.  Maybe becuse PC titles did not employ fancy copy proteciton at that time.

I would also say that viruses on the Amiga were only really an issue when Amiga was a viable platform.  Just as there's little dev effort for new Amiga OS software, there's bound to be very little dev effort for new Amiga viruses.  

Kind of sad if you think about it... If you measure a system's sucess by how may malcontents want to bring it down, Amiga is not even a blip on the radar anymore.  :-(

Maybe that's what OS4 needs to garner some attention!  A new virus!

[FastRobPlus]

Come to think of it, several of my Amiga's have contracted the "leaky battery" virus...