Paraphrasing quite a bit. Hopefully haven't lost any of the orginal meaning.
yock1960 wrote:
I feel like my original WB disks are clean.
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Everything was going reasonably well until ... I formatted a disk to copy the AExplorer executable to and then started BootX back up (I know, I should have left it running); this freshly formatted disk has the saddam virus according to BootX! HOW!
Saddam is memory resident. So even if BootX cleaned it from the disk, it might have still been in memory. The only way to get it out of memory is to power the Amiga down for a minute or so. Then boot from a fresh, virus free BootX disk and check your Workbench disks again.
yock1960 wrote:
could Amiga Explorer be the source(carrier?)?
I don't think this is possible. The virus would not be able to run on Windows as it is an Amiga programme.
yock1960 wrote:
P.S. Even though BootX 'neutralized' the Saddam virus on these disks and I did a full format on the PC, could it still somehow survive?
Not on the disk, which is why I think it must have still been memory resident and was subsequently able to infect another disk.
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moto
