amiga-news.de - New Virus Circulating

15.Jul.2000
Andre Gobet on ANF New Virus Circulating
This infromation addresses all users who recently purchased The "Techno DataBase 00" CD. On that CD there are miscellaneous installscripts for different applications. Obviously with that a new and potential dangerous virus gets installed, too. After installation and rebooting the system it starts like hell. During loading the SetPatch command inside Startup-Sequence the system hangs all the time.

Affected files: datatypes.library - SetPatch - Installer

Presumably more other files on the system partition are affected. Unfortunatly I lacked time to check this out, so far. Trying to remove the virus with VT3.17 failed, cause VT could not find the virus. :-(

For those who are already affected the following advice:
Switch off your Amiga.
Hold down both mouse-buttons and switch on your Amiga to come to the startmenue.
Boot with no Startup-Sequence.
Edit your Startup-Sequence like follows:
;C:SetPatch QUIET

This causes SetPatch not to get executed during startup, whereby the system can be started in some degree, again. It is possible that that virus is not widely spread yet, due to the fact that the CD comes from the French part of Switzerland were it was burned, too.

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