On (05 Oct 97) Wayne Chirnside wrote to Bill Drake...
 WC> 
 WC> about Quantum hard drives and attendent difficulties.
 WC> BD>As far as the Virus issue is concerned, the ANTICMOS A Virus is
 WC> BD>a Boot-Sector Virus.  This kind of virus does not propagate by
 WC> BD>downloads -- it requires an infected boot disk.
 WC> I'd just like to say that I haven't swapped diskettes in years
 WC> and have scanned all with the latest virus scanner's yet I
 WC> aquired anticmos a: on a i-net download. I know this doesn't
 WC> seem reasonable but as I recall it was a zipped .avi file that
 WC> showed crc errors on unzipping, shortly thereafter I ran a virus
 WC> check and found anticmos a:. Now I continue to use a small number
You probly down loaded a hacked zipped file, was it was a self extracting 
zipfile, if so it was a droper.
Gordon
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