Hi David,
Quoting David Desrosiers to Kurt Wismer, on 02 Jan 97
 DD>         Yes, true, but if I power off that system, and scan it with a
 DD> clean disk, it will detect the virus on the MBR.
Then you have several choices - either that system wasn't clean before you 
looked at the disk, your disk isn't really clean, or your scanner is faulty. 
(I'd say the first two were somewhat more likely, though :)
 DD>         So you're saying that a computer can't execute commands
 DD> without loading it into memory first?
Not really - I think he's trying to get across that while a computer doesn't 
know the difference between data and instructions, it has to be told to 
execute them - and no program with an ounce of sense is going to try and 
execute a data buffer.
Paul
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