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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WB 3.0
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 21:14:36
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- Fuller (mafuller@clubmet.metrobbs.com) wrote:
- : I have heard that workbench 3.0 has a bug involving reopening workbench
- : after an application has closed it. This bug is suppose to involve the
- : priority of the application, if the priority is to high workbench won't
- : reopen properly causing you to have to reboot. A new commidity called
- : mcx243 is suppose to fix it but I got a vector warning from Virus Checker
- : so I killed the program. Can anyone help me?
-
- If by "vectors" you mean the Amiga's xxxxcapture reset vectors then the
- MultiCX function which is most likely to be altering them is the reset
- handler, which forces a cold reboot when CTRL-LAmiga-RAmiga is pressed.
- This means that _all_ resident programs (including RAD:-like RAM disks,
- softkicker programs and naaasty viruses) will be removed during a reboot.
- If you don't want this option, remove the RESETHANDLER tooltype from
- MultiCX's icon.
-
- Alternatively, you could run Virus Checker with vector checking off, and
- carry on using the reset handler. Vector checking is unlikely to catch a
- lot of viruses anyway, since most "modern" viruses don't even bother
- to attempt to stay resident after a reboot. Link viruses in particular
- are unlikely to use them, because they are generally activated pretty
- quickly after a reboot anyway, if they have infected some of the programs
- run from your Startup-Sequence.
-
- -- Mat.
-