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The memory is not only not cleared upon rebooting, but there is a way to allow a program to survive a warm boot (CTRL-Amiga-Amiga). The virus itself is contained in the "boot block", and when you boot from an infected disk, installs itself in this manner. When you reboot with an uninfected disk, the virus writes itself out to the boot block of that disk, infecting it as well. A cold reboot (power off, power on) will indeed remove it from the memory. The problem is, you must know in advance that the disk you are currently booted from is infected before you would think to go through this procedure. As for looking at the disk to determine if the virus is there, the program to use is "Sectorama", which is in DL 9 as SEC.ARC. Perhaps someone will come up with a program that will detect and kill the virus, giving you a warning at the same time. I do think it's important, and we will probably put it into one of the Data Libraries and mention it in the short bulletin which everyone will see upon entry to the forum.