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to: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
from: BERK OZBOZKURT
date: 1997-10-10 14:40:00
subject: QUANTUM DRIVES

Hi Wayne Chirnside,
05 Oct 97 tarihinde, hatta yanilmiyorsam saat 13:44, sen Wayne Chirnside 
dedin ki:
(sorry I dont have an english header yet)
 BD>> As far as the Virus issue is concerned, the ANTICMOS A Virus is
 BD>> a Boot-Sector Virus.  This kind of virus does not propagate by
 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
 it seems impossible that after unzipping something you get a virus.. but it 
is not impossible to get a boot sector virus from a downloaded executable 
file, it may be a virus dropper and it may trick the antivirus software..
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