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echo: os2prog
to: Robert King
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1994-12-27 05:05:46
subject: Virus Hysteria

ZZ>
  > Hate to burst your bubble guy but I can produce a 128 byte program
  >
  >                All one need do is punch a hole into the
  > disk, that hole is nothing more than 1 cluster having it's
  > format removed.
ZZ>

   Which you cannot do unless you have locked the disc.  You
  cannot lock an active partition.

    [c:\]format c:
    The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
    SYS0525: The specified disk cannot be formatted.

    [c:\]

  Incidentally, HPFS does not have any notion of a "cluster".  The unit
  of allocation in HPFS is a sector.

ZZ>
  >    Put bluntly, while HPFS doesn't suffer the same
  > fragmentation ills that plague FAT volumes, it is one heck
  > of a lot easier to break and harder to fix than any FAT partition...
ZZ>

  You're in a minority of one there.  Speaking for myself (and I know of
  others who would say the same), HPFS has withstood everything that I
  can throw at it a whole lot better than FAT ever did in its day.

  > JdeBP <
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