27 January 2007, 14:20 | #1 |
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When's the last time you had a virus on your Amiga?
I was just wondering the other day as to when you last had a virus on your Amiga (if you still own one or not )
I think I last saw one in 1993 and since getting back into the scene a few years ago I've not come across any (including downloads etc). Guess they should all be confined to history now... or are there any lurking out there still That is all. |
27 January 2007, 14:33 | #2 |
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Disks bought second hand are a good source of viruses.
Several lots of disks bought over the last couple of years have been infected (sadly including some originals). I never had problems with viruses back when I used my Amiga heavily - a combination of write protecting disks and using the virus checker were always successful in keeping them out. |
27 January 2007, 15:07 | #3 |
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Never had real problems with them either. I too had the disks write protected if possible and checked.
Some disks in TOSEC are virus infected (hopefully all marked with the 'v'-flag) and at least Chase HQ2 SPS-ID #1246 disk 2 too, so some of them are preserved Some information about the Amiga viruses: http://www.vht-dk.dk/vhtdk/amiga/desc/all.htm |
27 January 2007, 15:19 | #4 |
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I had the Fungus LSD virus a few months back. It interfered with TCP stack and caused validation errors. I posted somewhere on EAB about it.
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27 January 2007, 19:25 | #5 |
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Had one Amiga virus ever. IIRC it was around 2000 and I've no idea where I got it from!
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27 January 2007, 19:30 | #6 |
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I had one from a PD disk once, but that was years and years ago.
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27 January 2007, 19:38 | #7 |
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I've only ever had two Amiga viruses.
One was on the game "The Cycles" which I rented from a store in 1991 (they apparently didn't know how easy it was to copy rented games). All the virus did was occasionally cause a crash in the game and made some courses unplayable. It didn't spread. The last virus I got was the "Happy New Year 96" virus. I got it from Planetemu.net in 2003 (program called ClariSSA which I mistakenly thought was something like ClarisWorks). Unfortunately at the time I didn't have Voodoo-X extractor with xvs.library support to tell me there was a virus. It spread like hell and I got lots of annoying crashes. I ran VirusZ and it detected and removed it for me. Two viruses in 20 years and thousands of downloads isn't bad. |
27 January 2007, 20:00 | #8 |
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I just checked Planetemu.net and they still have the ClariSSA archive (after I got the virus, it was removed). I tried downloading it to see if it still has the virus, but IBrowse 2.4 doesn't work with Planetemu.net ("Telecharger" button is greyed out. Anybody else notice this problem with IBrowse 2.4? 2.3 used to work)
I think somebody should check to see if the virus is still in that archive. We should wipe out all Amiga viruses everywhere. |
27 January 2007, 20:16 | #9 |
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STAMpede disk magazine shipped with a virus once.... Still cant remeber which edition though
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28 January 2007, 01:26 | #10 |
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Back in the day I had Lamer Exterminator, Saddam and BSG9. And my copy of Dynablaster is still infected with Glasnost to this day... but it works fine
Never had any real problems with viruses though... as mentioned above just keep your disks write enabled. Of course back then I didn't have an HD to worry about... but most viruses only affect floppies anyway. EDIT: After reading Muzkat's post below it jogged my memory - I had ByteBandit too Last edited by musashi5150; 28 January 2007 at 13:46. |
28 January 2007, 01:36 | #11 |
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I too had Lamer Exterminator a couple of times, and my copy of Blues Brothers once had a virus on the bootblock which made it slowly take longer and longer to load. In time, it would take something like 5 to 10 minutes just to load up Blues Brothers! Not knowing much about viruses then, I passed it to a friend who managed to remove it. When I got it back, I put the disk in my Miggy, and it said, in light green writing, "VIRUS REMOVED FROM BOOTBLOCK!" which was so nice to see.
EDIT: reading the list that Thor posted, I may have also have had the Byte Bandit virus. Last edited by Muzkat; 28 January 2007 at 01:45. |
28 January 2007, 12:49 | #12 |
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29 January 2007, 09:33 | #13 |
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I had a Saddam virus once. 1991 I think
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29 January 2007, 10:01 | #14 |
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JoshuaII and happy new year 96 are the only viruses I ever knowingly had. neither were destructive but soon cleaned once they did something to alert me to there presence. I soon learned to check any disks I borrowed
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29 January 2007, 10:25 | #15 |
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Some annoying virus that occasionally flashed some red writing on the screen.
back in 1991 and that's it! |
29 January 2007, 19:08 | #16 |
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Yesterday, when I dms:ed a rare demopack disk I downloaded onto a real disk.
No harm done, my boot detected it and sent it flying No viruses in my old disk collection. |
30 January 2007, 04:46 | #17 |
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yeah lots of my disks had the saddam virus, didn't even know it existed till I got nuke on LSD docs disk 32.
Also got that GSG9 virus to, that was quite funny and very easy to remove. I have a archive of virus's, but they are in .nz in a cupboard, while I'm in .au |
30 January 2007, 08:02 | #18 |
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Last year: Fungus, a very "sticky" link virus which infected about 200 files. When he at least infected the ahi prefs my 1200 crashed. Where I have got it from? I am sure thait it was "abuse" but...the port from the aminet? I cannot remember where I downloaded it.
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30 January 2007, 20:14 | #19 |
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Never had one. Though I don't think anyone would want to write one for the 1.3 environment. Or...would they?
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30 January 2007, 20:59 | #20 |
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I had one yesterday in one of the whdload packs.
Damn that ChaseHQ2 SPS image |
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