Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer From: Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ByteBandit hates FAST Mem Message-ID: <5301@cup.portal.com> Date: 11 May 88 02:49:40 GMT References: <5209@cup.portal.com> <5917@well.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 32 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2959 In article <5917@well.UUCP> (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >In article <5209@cup.portal.com> Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com writes: >>I have the "ByteBandit" virus (which I got for the purpose of >>testing), and it won't work on my machine with the FAST memory enabled. >>(gives a GURU #4, at address 1902 immediately upon booting the disk). > > Call the Byte Bandit and ask for an upgrade. :-) :-) > > Seriously, does anyone else find this as hysterical as I do? >"I can't infect my machine with a virus; can anyone help?" :-) :-) (Disclaimer: The following text does not mean I don't take virus'es seriously, or that they aren't a problem, etc.) Yeah, I laughed at this too. I spent a large amount of time trying to get a WORKING BB virus, and they all seemed to have the same problem. (Wouldn't boot.) Finally, I sort of half-thought "Maybe if I reboot with 'NoFast', to disable the Fast memory..." And Lo and behold, that damn thing worked fine. What an IDIOT programmer, who can't even write a virus that works with Fast mem. (It probably won't work on 68010 machines, either.) :-) Mr. Byte Bandi(r)t is a Fubar, no DOUBT about it. At least it means that a lot of us can relax a little and (APPARENTLY) not worry about this SOB virus. But let us keep in mind that even with this stupid bug, I got a disk with 508 (!!) generations of the virus on it, so it is STILL very potent... 'Nuff said for today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chad 'The_Walrus' Netzer -> AmigaManiac++ "Bols Ewhac tums kile 'Tony M. Nyphot's Flying Risccu'"... os od I, BTW!