While sitting on cloud 9, Rick Collins said to Danny Keogh something about 
  FDISK /MBR
 DK> You can create a virus which will detect whenever you try and do
 DK> that.  The virus will then load itself into memory and reinfect
 DK> the new boot sector when it's finished.  it wouldn't be too
 DK> difficult to do this.
 RC> Which is why you cold boot from a clean, write-protected floppy.
True.  But people who don't have much experience with computers
wouldn't think of that.
It always amazes me that all these computer sellers don't include
the simple things like virus protection in there so-called special
packages of the latest computer with 50 software titles included
free [not bloody likely].  Those software titles are bloody
useless if a virus gets into your system.  Newbies wouldn't know
how to get rid of them or even where to get software to do it.
I knew a guy once who spent hundreds of dollars buying
replacement parts for his computer because it kept stuffing up.
turns out he could have downloaded Mcafee or something for free
and solved his problem in 2 minutes.
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