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echo: virus_info
to: RICK COLLINS
from: CHRIS THURTELL
date: 1996-12-30 20:44:00
subject: Macs

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 jk> But wouldn't the virus be able to infect your PC if you read or
 jk> write on the disk. 
 RC> You must be as dumb as dirt.
 Fuk you're nice dude.
 RC> How many times and how many ways do you have to be told that
 RC> "reading" a disk and "writing" to a disk will _not_ cause an
 RC> infection?  How many times will you have to be told that, to get
 RC> infected, you have to _execute_ the software that causes the
 RC> infection?
 RC> Not reading an infected disk.  Not writing to a disk with an infected
 RC> boot sector.
  Looks like you don't know everything. Wot happens if the virus is in
  memory and you read a disk? i have seen a virus LOOK for *.exe *.com
  when a disk is read to infect. Its not hard to code. Virus's can spawn
  to other executables and run from there.
... Mary had a little RAM -- only about a MEG or so.
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