Hi Kurt,
 > this may be true... but an ultimate truth for computer viruses is
 > that they are programs that have to be run somehow to do anything...
 > reading them does *nothing* unless the reader program "interprets"
 > commands in the data that it's reading...
I am not sure how it works but on a MAC there is a DeskTop virus that can 
infect the system when it is inserted without the USER running anything the 
system probably runs some thing on the disk when it is inserted.
Regards, Malcolm.
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