17 April 2006, 23:27 | #1 |
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What's an Amiga/Generic virus?
Whilst backing up games from my harddrive to a DVD today, the McAfee virus alert kept popping up to tell me it had found the Amiga/Generic virus.
I played it safe with the first two alerts (don't copy - will delete later), until I noticed that there was a pattern with the warnings. ie. games with 'eagle' in the tiltle. Some Kick Off games also. Has anyone encountered this before, and is there is such a virus? Google only leads you to the McAfee site, which gives no detail whatsoever. Thanks. |
03 May 2006, 12:12 | #2 |
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Possibly a string combination in an Amiga disk file matches a known virus on PC and MCAffee looks for that string. Contact them.
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04 May 2006, 12:13 | #3 |
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yeh my mcaffee detected a bunch of what it thought were viruses in my whdload games
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08 May 2006, 22:34 | #4 |
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ive only had 1 virus it was on the st the ghost virus all it did was reverse my mouse
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09 May 2006, 01:10 | #5 |
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McAfee is a pile-o-poo.
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09 May 2006, 05:24 | #6 |
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thats a crock of sh1t, mcafee OWNS
what do u use? norton? free avg crap?? |
09 May 2006, 10:36 | #7 |
Tik Gora :D
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eset NOD32 mate .. Like they say "Better. Faster. Smaller."
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