OK. New to Amiga, purchased genuine used Workbench 1.3 disks and am using them on a A500 with 1MB total memory.
Since I've never owned an Amiga, I have been downloading some software. Some from Aminet, some not.
Not realizing that the Amiga OS was as cursed with virii to the extent that apparently it was/is, I have been uncautious and I have been infected. I have pretty much determined that most of the disks that I have transferred with Amiga Explorer (which I purchsed) are infected with the Saddam virus. Not 100% sure if there was just one source or multiple, but pretty much everything got infected before I knew it was there.
I did some searching on this site and came up with a thread where someone had a similar issue; where WB 1.3 isn't able to run the later AV software. In that thread I followed a link to BootX 4.45, downloaded it and to make a long story short, I feel like my original WB disks are clean. So; all the other disks are being formatted on a PC, then re-formatted on the A500 and new software transferred from the PC using Amiga Explorer.
Everything was going reasonably well until, after I did a fresh install of AExplorer from my PC to the A500 and making a backup of the BootX disk that I made and which did not appear to have any virii (after multiple checks!). When 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! Is it a false alarm somehow, maybe something in the AExplorer software that is causing a false alarm or could Amiga Explorer be the source(carrier?)?
I'm not sure what to do next. For now I'm going to bed and maybe someone will have some good news for me when I check in tomorrow!
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?
Thanks!
