Hi Chris,
Chris Evans to Kurt Wismer, 22 Jul 97 10:27.
 CE> lot of the virus writers are also trying to cause as much hardware
 CE> and software damage as possible in an effort to get a much publicity
 CE> as possible? -C.
A fair number of them, yes. But the virus has to spread successfully in order
to do this - if it trashes the drive not long after it's on there, it won't 
o
this. As an example, the most common infection is Stoned, which is a boot 
sector
with no malicious payload (it has a very small chance of printing a message 
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screen).
  Paul
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