09 January 2024, 12:12 | #1 |
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Is there really a virus in the original Turrican3 disk or what?
It's been a quite long while since I found out about this but to keep a long story short, I seem to remember my original Turrican3 Amiga disk used to trigger a virus warning (XCopy or Cyclone perhaps?)
So I was wondering whether this was actually true or not... Any help would be appreciated. |
09 January 2024, 12:35 | #2 |
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Turrican 3 is a trackloading game, if you can run the game, there is no virus on your disk. X-Copy probably just gave a message about a non-standard bootblock.
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09 January 2024, 12:37 | #3 | |
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Turrican 3 is a non dos disk with a custom bootblock, any virus will render the disk not bookable. A false positive is where the virus killer looks for either text or certain snippets of code to determine a known virus, and its simply the case that the bootblock that Turrican 3 has, has code that in part is the same as a known virus. |
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09 January 2024, 14:54 | #4 |
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Thanks guys, that's reassuring!
@StingRay I will doublecheck as soon as I can but I'm fairly sure the error message specifically mentioned a virus (not that it makes any difference now) |
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