Re: Help with INVALID DISK problems

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From: Dana B Bourgeois
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 04:23

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William Gullet writes:   (from memory so forgive me)

* My brother lost three games.  I don't think he has a virus because
* he cold boots each time.

I know it is obvious but perhaps the Workbench disk is infected.  I
suggest you write protect your originals, boot, and then make new
copies of kickstart and workbench.  Then get ahold of a good virus
check program and go through your disks.  Also you can try doing
a hex dump of the boot block and checking it against the C/A boot
block.  A boot block virus will have extra code before the jump.
It may also jump to a different address.

Dana

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Subject: Re: Help with INVALID DISK problems
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Date: 22 Jun 89 04:23:23 GMT
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