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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1996-12-27 17:56:00
subject: Macs

KW>  JK> OK!, but if you read from the bootsector with some utility
KW>  JK> program will the virus then be activated?
KW>
KW> no, over and over again, the only way is to boot from the infected
KW> floppy... reading it doesn't activate the code, it only moves it into a
KW> dos data buffer in memory... the virus doesn't activate here it just
KW> sits there while you look at it and eventually after you've done enough
KW> other things the buffer gets cleared...
Ok.
... nfx v2.9 [C0000]
--- BBBS/D v3.33 How-C
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