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Offline Andy001zTopic starter

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Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« on: November 02, 2007, 03:45:57 PM »
hi,

I have been out of the Amiga game for some time, and since I last used my amiga the big bad world has produced many nasties to attack our little darlings. (amigas, not children). So what I want to know is, is there any realy threat today from the virus world or have they moved away to spam and fiche the PC world, leaving us in peace.

I never had a virus checker installed on my Amiga, should I get one? is there one?

Cheers
Andy

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Re: Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2007, 04:15:45 PM »
There are no new viruses being made, however that doesn't mean that all the old nasties would have disappeared all the sudden.

So I'd recommend using xvs.library and VirusZ.
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Re: Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2007, 04:16:34 PM »
Most viruses only affect Kickstart 1.3 or older and don't even function on Kickstart 2.

There are some Virus checkers, though.  I don't know where to point you to to get VirusZ but that is one of the best and AFAIK is free nowadays.
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Re: Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2007, 04:29:16 PM »
Ta, for the info, it just occured to me while looking at the .lha files on Aminet
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Re: Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2007, 04:42:39 PM »
last time i remember was the ''safe'' a file/virus memory killer that affected on aminet around 1st quarter of 2002.
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Re: Amiga Virus's - A real threat or not?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2007, 05:07:59 PM »
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it just occured to me while looking at the .lha files on Aminet

Aminet is fairly safe, all uploads are scanned for viruses.

I'd be more concerned about some more "esoteric" sources... ;-)
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