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echo: virus_info
to: PAUL WALKER
from: RAYMOND LAU
date: 1997-05-17 16:26:00
subject: Virus checker

 PW> Hi Raymond,
 PW> Raymond Lau to Paul Walker, 08 May 97 16:31.
 PW>>> Most people prefer to backup /before/ they're infected -
 PW>>> that
 RL>> The drive was infected you f ing fool. Listen!
 PW> Drop dead. Your advice was worse than useless - backing up
 PW> infected files is only useful if your scanner cannot clean
 PW> the viruses properly. If this is the case, then you should be
 PW> using another scanner.
Only if the scanner is 100% perfect , but nothing is 100% perfect. Think 
bout
it!
 RL>> Hmmm...I am not too sure, why you hang aroung in this
 RL>> echo....but you
 PW> Because I enjoy helping people, and I have an interest in
 PW> viruses.
Yer, but all you know about virus is how to program trojan that format
someone's drive... even I can write a virus in Batch that can format 
omeone's
drive, but can you make a virus that change the access date of file or virus
that moves from files to files, I guess not. So shut up!
 PW> The reason why you stay still has me baffled, though.
 RL>> don't really know virus do you?
 PW> I suspect I have more of a clue than you do on the subject,
 PW> let's put it this way.
 RL>> It is possible for a virus to come back to life, if you just
 RL>> delete
 PW> Qualify and explain, please. Under what circumstances? What
 PW> viruses do this?
If you undelete your drive...auctally, if you have DOS5.0 or 6.0, go into the
directory, you will even find a file call unformat, so do you think it's
possible to a virus to come back to life now?
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