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Virus alert!

#35635
From: Rainer Klute
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1988 14:54
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In comp.binaries.atary.st a program named VKILLER was just
posted. It examines the boot sector and the FAT of a floppy
disk for a virus and kills them upon request.

It turned out that most of my floppies at home and at work were
infected by a so called 'key virus'. This virus, once active,
installs itself in the boot sector of every disk a read or
write is performed on. The second action this virus performs it
to wait for a disk with a certain 'key' in the boot sector.
When such a disk comes along it does all the (probably
destructive) actions coded on that key disk. - It is said that
this virus is spread far about germany and the netherlands.

Bottom line: I would highly recommend everyone to use VKILLER.
Kill those virusses! Make sure that your system is not infected!

Thanks to George Woodside for this important program. Keep on
that good work!

  Rainer Klute                  ----   klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
  Universitaet Dortmund, IRB    |)|/   klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet
  Postfach 500500               |\|\   ...uunet!mcvax!unido!klute
D-4600 Dortmund 50              ----   Tel.: +49 231 7554663
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From: klute@trillian.uucp (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,dnet.atari
Subject: Virus alert!
Keywords: boot sector,key,virus,vkiller
Message-ID: <810@laura.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 14:54:33 GMT
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Organization: Universitaet Dortmund
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