-=> Quoting Will Eckard to Kurt Wismer <=-
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we> It wasn't a joke. The virus has be out for about 5 years. I can't
we> think of the name right now. But what it does is that it makes
we> the, I guess you can call them needles, things that write to the
we> disk. It makes them dig into the surface of the disk. Someone
we> tried to give this virus to me but I noticed the file that the
we> person gave me was bigger than it was suppose to be..... I in
we> turn used a hex editor to love at the program and I saw the
we> coding for the virus. I am not sure if McAfee has a cleaner for
we> this virus. I know that there is a cleaner for it, but no idea
we> who makes it. 
This is nonsense.  There are no "needles" or "pins" in a disk drive
used to write to the disk.  There is a "head" which contains the
read/write mechanism - an electromagnet.  There are no commands and
no mechanism within a hard drive which can cause the head to move
vertically towards the surface of the disk, and therefore no "virus"
(or anything else) that could cause that to happen.  In a floppy
drive the head is in direct physical contact with the disk surface
during operation, and again there are no commands nor mechanism which
could be used to force the head harder into the disk.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 20 Apr 8:21 
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