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Originally Posted by Crashdisk
It would be easy but ...:
I suppose that "waste" is in reality the start command of a virus that modified the startup-sequence file.
The solution is not to fix the size of the file but remove the virus command to restore the original size.
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Yes, see Jeff virus description (from
http://www.teyko.com/View.aspx?id=297&name=Jeff+v1.31)
"While altering the startup-sequence the virus uses a very aggressive solution: The space which is needed to add the filename of the virus will be cut from the original startup-sequence at the end. Take a look at the following unaltered startup-sequence of an Amiga disk:
C:SetPatch QUIET
C:Version >NIL:
After alteration by the virus (assuming Aloisius as filename) the (above) startup-sequence looks like this:
Aloisius
C:SetPatch QUIET
C:Vers
As you can see the resulting startup-sequence is corrupted because the AmigaDOS will search for a command C:Vers instead of C:Version. This means that the last command won't be processed anymore but "ignored" (infact it will raise a command not found exception to be precise)."