selling some Amiga stuff...

[AndyFC]

Have a look here for an A1200 Keyboard (no yellowing), and HD cradle, and a Roctec Rocknight Virus stopper.

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=f1andyc&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

Nothing amazing, but a bit of free advertising never hurt...

Thanks.

[Holley]

That virus blocker is a wierd bit of kit! Definately one for the collectors, I'm gessing it would have been handy for usergroup librarians back in the day ...

[FastRobPlus]

Yeah, that's wacky.  The world's first hardware firewall?



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[d]Amiga cats don't get Microsoft worms![/d]
Amiga cats get bootblock viruses, and they can't play "Shadow of the Beast" anymore.  
Stupid SCA - I wanna punch them!

[Holley]

Nice sig Rob, though thanks to WHDLoad Shadow of the beast should work nicely on my A3000 ... thats if I can find the original disks ;-)

Oh, and I've only seen one bootblock virus in the flesh (in '93), but this last year I've taken worm viruses off over 200 PCs ...

[FastRobPlus]

I worked for an Amiga retailer.  This was a semi-big problem for us.  Lots of badwill generated when we had to include a disclaimer with Amiga games sales stating that we won't accept returns if a virus is detected on the disk.  DOS and ST games didn't have this isssue (or at least, we never saw it.)  I think Mac had the issue, but we didnt sell many Mac games.

We did have a great free virus blocker back then.  It was: "power the computer off and wait 30 seconds"

[Holley]

PCs had bootblock viruses, only they could transmit from harddisks (only way to clear that was to clear the HDs partition table), I had a few of those (ParityBoot.B was a PITA, it behaved like the machine was overheating).

They could transmit if you left a disk (bootable or not) in the drive when starting, or by accessing it in some other ways.

Recently I've had to clear Sasser, Agobot (lots of those), Netsky, RBot, and a couple of other more oddball ones - these spead like wildfire through a WAN, and have caused me lots of trouble (we had Agobot several days before Windows had a patch to prevent re-infection - that was interesting!).

[FastRobPlus]

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PCs had bootblock viruses
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I would not dispute that.  But back then, they didn't result in customers returning games.  Maybe becuse PC titles did not employ fancy copy proteciton at that time.

I would also say that viruses on the Amiga were only really an issue when Amiga was a viable platform.  Just as there's little dev effort for new Amiga OS software, there's bound to be very little dev effort for new Amiga viruses.  

Kind of sad if you think about it... If you measure a system's sucess by how may malcontents want to bring it down, Amiga is not even a blip on the radar anymore.  :-(

Maybe that's what OS4 needs to garner some attention!  A new virus!

[FastRobPlus]

Come to think of it, several of my Amiga's have contracted the "leaky battery" virus...

[Cyberus]

{bleep}ing crap! I need broadband!!  Got outbid a few seconds before the auction close, and it takes so bloody long to enter a new bid and confirm it, bloody snipers!  :-x


I just hope the high bidder will submit photos and details to BBoAH at least...

[Gojirax]

Ahhh... boot sector viri...

I used to work as a bench tech at a computer store that sold Mac, Amiga and PC stuff. I actually had a collection of boot sector viri from PCs people brought in.

The most I ever fit on a single floppy was 3 in the boot sector.

They were as common on PC's as popups on porn sites.

[Dr_Righteous]

Yes yes, one of my favorite DOS commands: FDISK /MBR

[Darrin]

Way back, I remember attending a User Group meeting in Germany in the 1980's and a guy giving me a floppy that I should "check out".  If I remember correctly, it was a program called "Virus Generator" and gave you a nice screen with clickable boxes for 6 or 8 (cant remember now) popular viruses that you could write to the floppy in DF0.  The idea being that you could infect a disk and pass it on...

I wonder who came up with that program.  Anyone else come across it?