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echo: virus_info
to: BERK OZBOZKURT
from: LARRY KEENAN
date: 1997-10-14 11:54:00
subject: QUANTUM DRIVES

10 Oct 97 14:40, Berk Ozbozkurt wrote to Wayne Chirnside:
 BO> Hi Wayne Chirnside,
 BO>  it seems impossible that after unzipping something you get a virus.. 
 BO> but it is not impossible to get a boot sector virus from a downloaded 
 BO> executable file, it may be a virus dropper and it may trick the 
 BO> antivirus software..
It is not impossible to get a virus simply by unzipping something. You can 
also activate a virus by copying a file.
Some boot sector files also attach to overlay files as well as executables.
Catch You Around the Ridges,
                            Larry
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