KW>> -=> Mocking Will Eckard to Mark Gaulton <=-
  >>   
KW>> WE> Yes there is a virus that does that. It damages every 3.5
KW>> disk stuck
  >> WE> in the infected computer. The read/write pins dig into the disk.....
KW>>read/write PINS? dot matrix printers have pins (which can dig
KW>>into the
  >>surface of the media they write on) but disk drives don't... they have
  >>tiny little electromagnetic plates...
KW>>or was that supposed to be an (ill timed, given the recent
KW>>outbreak of
  >>hw destroying virus claims) attempt at humour...
KW>>... quantum chromodynamics - the RGB nature of the universe...
KW>>--- Maximus 2.02
 > It wasn't a joke. The virus has be out for about 5 years. I
 > can't think of the name right now. But what it does is that it
 > makes the, I guess you can call them needles, things that write
 > to the disk. It makes them dig into the surface of the disk.
 > Someone tried to give this virus to me but I noticed the file
 > that the person gave me was bigger than it was suppose to
 > be..... I in turn used a hex editor to love at the program and
 > I saw the coding for the virus. I am not sure if McAfee has a
 > cleaner for this virus. I know that there is a cleaner for it,
 > but no idea who makes it.
Bogus.  Quite impossible.
Send me the code (or the infected program) (squiretoad@ibm.net).  I'll
disassemble it and show you precisely how it can NOT do any such thing.
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