Viruses

[Niagara]

Hello everyone,

I regularly play games on my A-500 and came across some virusses.

I'm amazed that no more people encounter that problem. Could be i didn't find the right threads of course,but it seems to me that other sites practically don't mention them either. I can't imagine that i am the only one having problems on the matter.

I've had Lamer, saddam and some Forpid virus.

What i'm looking for is this;

1) Viruskillers or links for downloading them.

2) Does write-protecting the disks help?

3) How do i locate the source disk?

4) I have a cover-disk-virusscanner which asks, in case of a virus, if i want it to write a new bootblock. Is that effective/good idea?

5) Sometimes gamedisks that have allways worked suddenly give the "not a dos disk" message. Any disk i put in after that gives the same message. Is that one of the virusses above? Can the software on the disk be repaired then?

Loads of questions, but to me it is one of the two main practical problems i encounter.

I'll post a thread later on Read/write errors and malfunctioning disks but i have to define that problem first.

Any help will do and be much appreciated.

Nia.