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Article #32065

Re: *** VIRUS KILLER ***

#32065
From: Rainer Klute
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 10:58
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In article <538@csvax.liv.ac.uk> unpowell@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
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>	I've noticed quite a growing concern about ST viruses on the net.
>The following uuencoded program is a virus killer. It allows examination
>of a disk's boot sector, the removal of an auto executing boot sector and
>the installation of an "anti virus" on a disks boot sector. This anti virus
>is simply a program, on the boot sector, that tells the user (on boot up)
>that his/her disk is virus free.

- I won't install anything on the boot sector of any disk if I
  don't have the source of it (and have compiled it myself for
  sure).

- Sources and binaries should be posted to the moderator of
  comp.sources.atari.st resp. comp.binaries.atari.st.

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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
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Subject: Re: *** VIRUS KILLER ***
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Date: 21 Apr 88 10:58:41 GMT
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