RC>-=> Quoting Will Eckard to Kurt Wismer <=-
  >-=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=<
RC>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.
RC>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.
RC>TTFN. Rick.
  >Ottawa, ON 20 Apr 8:21
RC>--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20
I'll be sending you a copy of the f*@% virus. You can look at the damn
thing and eat your words. If you can't tell I don't LIKE BEING CALLED A
LIAR!!!!! I take viruses very seriously. I use to write them. I can send
you a few if you want!!!!! And the ones that I've wrote aren't very
nice.....
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