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F*&^*&ing Ebola Virus!
« on: February 28, 2013, 04:15:00 AM »
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.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2013, 02:02:35 PM by ral-clan »
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Re: F*&^*&ing Ebola Virus!
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2013, 02:02:12 PM »
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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