JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD had something deep to write about Virus
Alert!


JP>   To make HPFS unrecoverable,

I once managed to mangle the partition table on a SCSI-II drive, but I
had help from an out of date *.add file and HA BIOS chips.  Even booted
from the floppy disks, OS/2 denied that I even had a hard drive.  After
a low-level format, everything was beautiful.  (I did have a backup)

JP> And the evidence shows that
JP>   they are far too difficult to write for the average virus writer, who
JP>   obviously prefers the ease and lack of protection of DOS.

That and the much larger field of potential victims.

 * KWQ/2 1.2g * I though I was buying inexpensive, but all I got was cheap.


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