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to: PAUL WALKER
from: AARON JORDAN
date: 1997-06-15 17:40:00
subject: This Deleting Virus message

-> Hi AARON,
-> AARON JORDAN to ALL, 05 Jun 97 18:31.
->  AJ>         Well I am here to say (and correct me if I'm wrong) that when
->  AJ> you "delete" something it's still there unless you actually get down
->  AJ> and dirty in the *actual* hardrive which would require special
-> If you really want to get technical, then the file is marked as being 
deleted
-> by having a certain character as the first one in the filename. However, 
it's
-> FAT chain is not destroyed until clusters are required for other files, 
which
-> is
-> why if you undelete things quickly you can normally get files back intact.
        Nawwwww let's not really technical. I'm not any good with
hardware, but wiz with the software.    
        Thanks for the info,    
                Aaron
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