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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST? - *VIRUS*
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 11:19:34 +1100
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
- Message-ID: <4hg1am$kpm@ar.ar.com.au>
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- Patrick Hanevold (patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no) wrote:
-
- : >I thought all you guys might be interested to know that the runback command
- : >in the FastBootV1_0.lha archive is infected with the "Happy New Year 96" link
- : >virus. VirusZ will remove it.
-
- : Damn! A survivor. Had a BAD atack. Thank GOD that it isnt dangerous.
- : Virusfree version will be uploaded to Aminet soon. Just want to
- : get some more response on it. If anyone have trouble removing the virus,
- : mail me for a virusfree version. If anyone feels like giving me the name
- : of the guy who wrote the bastard, please do.
-
- I should also tell people that we've found the Happy New Year 96 virus on
- a beta-version of.. um.. I think it was iBrowse, but it might have been
- one of the other under-development web browsers.. and also a new version
- of ppp.device.. on local BBSes.
-
- I don't know where these files came from originally.. they may never have
- been near the net.. but be warned, that there is net software out there
- circulating with this virus. I used VirusZ II 1.28 to clear it up.
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