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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SCA-Virus help
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Date: 13 Aug 88 09:00:12 GMT
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tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>In article <2995@utastro.UUCP> sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman) writes:
>stuff deleted
>>Now, I have found the SCA virus (it says something like "GOOD NEWS YOUR AMIGA
>more deleted
>>block. Great, now that I have found it, how do I get rid of it?  
>
>I think you should try VirusX 1.21. It's automatic if you include it
>in your startup-sequence (in case of HD) or you boot it from a special
>floppy. It checks disks whenever you insert it. It is PD, and it also
>finds and destroys ByteBandit.
>
>I recommend to always put the disks to check in df0:, I have had some
>questionable behaviour with disks in my df2:


VirusX (by Steve Tibbett) is now up to version 1.6, thought ANY version
of it will detect the original SCA ("something wonderful...etc.")
virus.  The versions since 1.5 will now also act as "ViewBoot" does
(so you no longer need ViewBoot)... just click on VirusX's window and
hit 1, 2, 3, or 4 and you'll be shown the boot sectors for DF0: up to
DF4:.  Steve is now covering the SCA, Byte Bandit, Revenge, LSD, 
Willow/Zorro Viruses and probably a few others. God help us.. the ONLY one
I've ever seen is the original SCA.  I must be living clean :-)

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