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Originally Posted by mailman
Not quite. I may be wrong but in the past there was a scene diskmag called Taboo. I guess that the problem was with the issue 3 or 4. Inside it has a code which formatted disk C: only if the mag was run under WinUAE (it detected it). There was a huge revolta about this because "infected" version was put on Aminet. A few days later it was replaced by the version which was free of this code. This code you could call a virus and I think it doesn't matter for it whether you had or hadn't Windows' disks mounted.
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That looks like an urban legend. Detecting WinUAE from an amiga application is possible, but running a format C: from an amiga application is just not possible.