fobotcso, there is nothing wrong with my memory, it's my attention that is the problem. In mitigation, I scanned past likelylad's post because the second line read Virus Hoax Advisory and real viruses, not harmless hoaxes are my current interest.
Still, unless I am in advanced stages of dementia, I still see no reference to a rough guide to detecting the MAGISTR.A virus without using a virus check programme, as I have said, a rough guide to the existence of the MTX virus is to search for a file named MTX_.*
Go easy on me, I've had one virus after another recently!
Who on earth started this thread anyway?