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- From: brudiakg@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Rudiak-Gould)
- Subject: AMIGAEM.ZIP
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.075152.6085@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 07:51:52 GMT
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- Curiosity got the better of me, and I downloaded this file (AMIGAEM.ZIP)
- from a BBS. Has anyone heard of such a beast? I'm afraid to run it,
- for fear that it's some sort of a Trojan horse. (I mean that both in
- the original sense and in the special case of a virus.)
-
- The archive contains two files: EMULATOR.EXE (273,947 bytes uncompressed)
- and README.USA, of which the full text is reproduced below:
-
- -------------------- SLICE HERE --------------------
-
- The Emulator runs only with VGA Card, Microsoft compatible Mouse and
- a minimum of 512K extended memory. The mouse has to be Microsoft
- compatible on COM1:.
- Kickstart 1.2, Version 33.192 will be emulated.
-
- There is no hardware emulation, so only "clean" programed stuff
- will run. (slowly)
-
- The boot drive is Drive A, and if this is a 5," you have to make
- a copy of the 3 1/2....
-
- -------------------- SLICE HERE --------------------
-
- (That's 393 bytes, by the way.)
-
- A text search of the executable turned up nothing of interest save a
- few Workbench references.
-
- A virus scan found nothing.
-
- Archie couldn't find AMIGAEM.ZIP or anything like it in the Internet
- archives.
-
- The file had no description on the BBS, and I don't know who uploaded
- it.
-
- Advice is desperately needed!
-
- --
- Ben Rudiak-Gould
- brudiakg@isis.cs.du.edu
- rudiak@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of me.
-