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to: TOM SMIT
from: LEWIN EDWARDS
date: 1996-12-18 19:45:00
subject: PC viruses and Apple Macs

TS> Thank you for your response. It is what I used to think but now think PC 
TS> Exchange may not reformat the boot sectors of the PC floppy (assuming it 
TS>  (Sierra) was not likely to be the virus causing the trouble at my 
client's 
TS> network!! Do you have anymore info on PC Exchange and boot sectors?
Yes.. Wait 30 seconds........ I'll format a disk in OS/2, put it on the Mac, 
reformat it, and look at the bootsector... OK, done. PC Exchange rewrites the 
bootsector completely. The owner OS type is "PCX 2.0". That is with System 
7.5.5 on the Mac.
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/
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