Can a virus boot the system all the time?

[Franko]

While it would be perfectly simple to write a Virus that would randomly reset your Amiga I don't recall anyone actually doing so, it would be a pretty lame and useless virus, if that's all it did...

Doubt it's a virus causing you problems, sounds more like to me to be a hardware problem. In which case the age old method of removing all hardware from your system comes into play and re-instating them one by one until the problem re-occurs...

I know a lot of folk don't like doing this but in the long run rather than spending days or weeks trying to figure out something like this, it's best really to do so straight away and spend a couple of hours doing so as you'll most likely end up having to do this in the end...

Only virus I still have left on some 8000 odd ADF files is one on the game "Time Bandit" which I keep out of nostalgia just to remind of what an Amiga virus actually looked like...

[Franko]

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:

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...

[Franko]

Im upping this post again because the sudden crash/booting continued after a while ...
Could it be that the PSU im using is giving all the trouble?

I used an old A500 PSU and the a600 crashed all the time.
(Allthough the heavyweight A500 PSU should be better than the flimsy original A600 lightwight PSU)

Then I changed it back to the original lightwight A600 PSU and ran a game 10 hours straight without any probs.

Think you answered your own question there...

@ Gertsy

Dunno, there's a big virus that live's at the bottom of me garden and it's huge, got 18 fingers like baseball bats, but I don't think it's clever enough to reset a miggy, all it ever says is Ugh and Bongo's...