G'day Niels

01 Apr 04 22:30, Niels Petersen wrote to All:

 ac>> I think the most harmful thing possible was to
 ac>> redefine the keys on the keyboard though.

 NP> That's still enough to erase someones hard disk

 NP> And there are boot sector viruses that only needs a floppy to be 
 NP> inserted in the drive as I recall.  No need to run a file.

Booting a file "runs" it.

Boot sector viruses seem to have lost favour in recent years. They took
some skill to write, not just access to a "script kiddie
toolbox".

Regards,
David

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