Argh, I just tried googling "The Alliance Anti-Virus Collection" and got seriously wet-fished by the tip-of-tongue variant of https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd

Argh, I just tried googling "The Alliance Anti-Virus Collection" and got seriously wet-fished by the tip-of-tongue variant of https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/. Minor whiplash incoming :( So, variations on that string eventually find three results: - This HN thread (Google be fast) - Someone describing the same disk using very similar terms and with from a similar location ⁽ʰᶦ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˢʸᵈⁿᵉʸ ᵇᵗʷ⁾, which I'd be surprised (to say the least) to learn is not you: https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=73527.15#msg838909 https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=73527.15#msg838909 - ThIs InFuRiAtInG dEaD-eNd PoSt FrOm 2006 ("MoSt ReCeNt UsEr AcTiViTy SeP 2007"): https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1332424#td_post_288459 https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1332424#td_post_28845... - the attachment (which Google indexed) contains... "Alliance Anti-Virus Collection v8.00 (19xx)(The Alliance).zip"... D: D: D': ... and the username "jjsmith" doesn't really turn up anywhere else... - Further extrapolation finds (via the miracle of working OCR and then "where on earth is that in the actual magazine"): https://archive.org/details/Australian_Commodore_and_Amiga_Review_The_Volume_6_Issue_7_1989-07_Saturday_Magazine_AU/page/n57/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/Australian_Commodore_and_Amiga_R... - at the bottom of the leftmost column ("Killing the IRQ virus"): "To check for the IRQ Virus, use Jon Potter's program POPDIR in Mega-disc 10, or pick version 7.0 of the Alliance Anti-Virus Pack from Prime Artifax on (02) 817-0011." Wow, a 7-digit phone number. I only very very vaguely remember those. So, why on earth post this given that it's a giant dead end? Well, this is Amiga. Way I look at it, based on the data available, I think it's promisingly likely that repeated pokings at the woodwork over time may actually make something nice fall out, maybe even sooner rather than later. It's a small community nowadays, IIUC. So maybe keep knocking? I wonder what would happen if you poked around on EAB. There's also the "Prime Artifax" route - googling finds a very small number of results (https://google.com/search?q=%22prime+artifax%22+bbs https://google.com/search?q=%22prime+artifax%22+bbs, http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1537713 http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1537713, http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/ http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/) but enough to make me wonder if maybe someone might have mirrors/dumps indexed by that that they don't realize contains this disk.