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echo: virus_info
to: GORDON FREY
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1997-01-03 19:08:00
subject: Virus infect picture`

GF>  JK> That's WRONG stupid.  When a virus is in memory it will spread to 
he
GF>  JK> files that you access, and to the directories you access.
GF>
GF> Wrong, DOS is single-process.  As long as the scaning program DOES
GF> NOT use DOS or BIOS calls the virus can't get control passed to
GF> it.  If the system was COLD booted from a CLEAN floppy the virus
GF> will not be active in memory so it will be a mute point.
I know that, but that wasn't what i meant. I meant that when you access files 
maybe by looking at them with some program or you access them by some other 
way the virus will infect them.
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