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echo: virus_info
to: MALCOLM YOUNG
from: PAUL WANKADIA
date: 1997-10-22 21:29:00
subject: Virii

On 17 Oct 97, Malcolm Young wrote to Larry Keenan --
 > It is not impossible to get a virus simply by unzipping something.
 MY> Which virus? If the file unzipped by a PKUNZIP (or similar) how does
 MY> the virus spread.
 > You can also activate a virus by copying a file.
 MY> Details please?
He's dribbling crap.  Unless you've already been infected by a virus and it
happens to have hooked the interrupt that vectors file-related system-calls,
neither of the two abovementioned operations will infect any files.
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