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From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: "xeno" virus
Message-ID: <21fB02Wm49np01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 17:47:08 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX
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I saw this on a local BBS.

Anyone have any info in this????

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Does anyone know anything about the Xeno virus? IS there any programs 
out there that will detect or kill it? 69th Street BBS is down do to 
this fiendish bug that writes to any program which is run or executed. 
It spreads through the hard drives and looks for FastFileSystem. With 
TxEd you can look at programs and see the words "Greetings Amiga users 
from the Xeno virus!" It also writes 1124 bytes to each program that is 
run. Other than that, I don't know anything about it like how it spreads
and how to rid the universe of it! VirusX3.2, kv, NoVirus1.54 does not 
detect it. Any help would be appreciated!
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