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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1996-12-13 17:24:00
subject: Macs

KW>  -=> Mocking John to Rick <=-
KW>   (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
KW>
KW>  RC> _Wrong_!  You can't infect a system by "reading a disk".  You have 
o
KW>  RC> _execute_ something to get infected.
KW>
KW>  JK> That WRONG.
KW>
KW>  JK> Ever heard about BOOTSECTOR virus?
KW>
KW> no, you're wrong... bootsector viruses need the computer to boot with
KW> the infected bootsector... the booting process *executes* the
KW> bootsector... ergo even bootsector viruses require execution to do
KW> anything...
OK but if you writes DIR A: then the BOOTSECTOR virus will be active. 
Wouldn't it?
... nfx v2.9 [C0000]
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