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echo: virus_info
to: RICK COLLINS
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1996-12-23 20:52:00
subject: Macs

RC> -=> Quoting John Kismul to Gordon Frey <=-
RC> -=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=<
RC>
RC> jk> But wouldn't the virus be able to infect your PC if you read or
RC> jk> write on the disk.
RC>
RC> You must be as dumb as dirt.
RC>
RC> How many times and how many ways do you have to be told that
RC> "reading" a disk and "writing" to a disk will _not_ cause an
RC> infection?  How many times will you have to be told that, to get
RC> infected, you have to _execute_ the software that causes the
RC> infection?
RC>
RC> Not reading an infected disk.  Not writing to a disk with an infected
RC> boot sector.
OK OK, it's just that I've read that some viruses can be activated by just 
reading or writing on a disk.
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