#Lazarus Virus
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Just visiting. A friend with an Amiga called. he's been infected by the
"Lazarus" virus. I come from the MS DOS world so I couldn't give him any
help. Any suggestions?
I recommended that he go back to his original program disks and said his
his data would probably be safe (It is in the IBM/PC world but not in the
land of the Mac), is this true.
Thanks for any help. Bill Mussatto
I'm not a sysop, however the "Lazarus Virus" is not a virus at all. … The
program DiskDoctor renames disks which it has 'repaired' as Lazarus. This
is the normal behavior. If he has NOT run DiskDoctor, then… perhaps
there is a problem. Report back if that is the problem
Thanks, he did mention DiskDoctor. However, he said he is having his disks
trashed. I'll try to get him over to be more specific. thanks for the
quick response. Bill
If he's not waiting until the light goes out on the floppy drive goes out
before he reboots or pops the disk out, it can trash the disk. Be sure he
isn't doing that.
Steve
Thanks, I'll pass it on. He really needs to get on CIS. Wish I could have
my questions answered as fast. Now if I can just find a good anti-viral
program that won't be confused by a 486… Thanks again. Bill
Bill,
Sounds like he's a new user, and is having the same problem I had my first
couple of days as an Amiga user. The disk drive light, when a disk is being
written to, will sometimes turn off (and the drive will stop) for a brief
moment, and then come back to life to make a final write to the directory.
If one is in a rush, and used to the way an MS-Doggie machine works, it's
easy to take a disk out of the drive before it's completely updated (has to
do with a more complex directory structure, for greater redundancy of info
enabling more hardiness of data on-disk, ironically enough). The impulse,
once a disk has been trashed this way, is to use the included DiskDoctor,
which doesn't really help (described to me by my Amiga dealer as "the
Amiga's evil twin").
Tell your friend to wait a few moments when a disk is being written to,
even after the drive has initially shut off, to make sure all writes have
completed. This will probably cure his "virus" problem completely. Once he
gets the hang of what's going on, it's no more a problem than anything else
in the computer world. Good luck!
— steve