-=> Quoting The Visionary to Herbert Graf <=-
 HG> Ya, and they only work when the bootsector is read and executed, and
 HG> that only happens if you stick in the disk before turning on the
 HG> computer and booting from that disk, aside from that the virus can't
 HG> do anything.
 TV> 100% INcorrect.
 TV> You read the FAT and the boot sector when you read data from
 TV> the disk. The computer has to be able to tell if it's a 3«" disk
 TV> formatted to 720k or the same disk formatted to 1.44mb. This is all
 TV> stored on the MBR and in the FAT table.
        All true, however all it does is read and interpret it, it DOES NOT
excecute it. In fact the FAT can't even be run, and the MBR is never executed
except for the when the BIOS is done it's stuff and hands the computer over
to the OS. Think about it.
 TV> You can have a clean system powered on, insert a floppy, and
 TV> then just type 'dir a:' and infect your system (well, load the virus
 TV> into memory, which it can then infect from).
        "100% INcorrect." I quote. TTYL
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