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Re: Can a virus boot the system all the time?
« on: April 26, 2011, 08:39:39 PM »
I indeed had a virus like that in the '90s. I had an Amiga 1200 that booted itself randomly and at the time I couldn't find a virus checker that recognized the virus. I had no choice but to erase all infected disks (a lot!). But I suppose these days virus checkers probably can find that s.o.b of a virus more easily. Good luck! :pint:

Edit: Yes, the random crashing went away with the formatting and everything was back to normal once again.
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Re: Can a virus boot the system all the time?
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 09:15:53 PM »
Quote from: Franko;633758
More likely the opposite (ie: a virus checker wont find it) especially if it was a little known virus and has never been included in any Virus Checkers database... ;)


Well, let's wait and see what lauri.lotvonen can dig up from his machine?