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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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