Virus in my A500

[Castellen]

There's also lots of good antivirus progs on Aminet.  VirusZ,
VirusCheckerII and VirusExecutor are some popular ones.
Not sure if they'll all run under OS 1.3 though.

Unless your A500 has a hard drive attached to it, it can't store
a virus as everything in memory is erased when the power is turned
off.
So it would be a matter of going through your disks and virus checking
them all.

[Castellen]

Good point, if it's a relatively new virus, then the older anti-virus
software may simply ignore it.

Some virus could get transfered between disks if you insert them into
the A500 without resetting it first.  Of course it depends on the
virus type.  Some migrate (spread) very easily while others don't.

The best thing to do is use a current virus checker on a higher end
computer to find out exactly what kind of virus it is, and if possible
let it remove the virus from the disks for you.

[Castellen]

Good plan to virus check software which comes from an unknown source.
In particular I've heard of a lot of pirated disks containing A500
bootlock virus, etc.

I know what you mean about the "computer licence" idea :-)
I used to work for a communications company who also sold cellphones,
cordless phones, faxes, etc.
We used to get so many moron customer complaints due to people not
reading instruction manuals, or who were generally just too thick to
use something.  That was particularly the case with fax machines.

We thought of having an "IQ rating" on all equipment, where
a customer's IQ would have to exceed that of the equipment's rating.

Of course that would have meant we'd hardly ever sell anything....