Ping Pong imitation (PC)

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From: BRUTON raymond
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 19:22

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Just a note, this may save somebody some headaches.

	I recently had what looked like the ping-pong virus with a
squished ball (the normal curser) while running Soft-PC on an apple
Powerbook.  I tried unzipping FP-205.zip using PKZIP v1.93a alpha
version, it would hang and the curser would go ping-pong fashion.  I
checked the disk with F-Prot205 and it was OK.  I went back to the
official version of PKZIP v1.10 and it would unzip OK.  My PKZIP
v1.93a would work fine on the same file of a normal 486-33 desktop
system.  It looks like some illegal instruction occurred on the
Soft-PC powerbook configuration.
	One thought on this though, with the emerging of mixed
technologies, could the Soft-PC's system areas be affected by viruses
and could they be repaired in the regular ways and I don't think that
I am able to do the standard procedure of booting from a non-infected
floppy for scanning.

				hotpoint@cs.concordia.ca

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