On (04 Jan 97) David Desrosiers wrote to Rick Collins...
 -=> Quoting Rick Collins to David Desrosiers <=-
 DD> So you're saying that a computer can't execute commands
 DD> without loading it into memory first?
 RC> That has been the case ever since Von Neumann developed the concept
 RC> of the "stored program" - and that was in the 1930's. :-)
 DD>         So that means we must agree that the cache on the CPU is
 DD> considered memory, as well as the cache on the motherboard, and the
 DD> cache on the
 DD> harddrive. If a system has no ram in it at all, it is still possible
 DD> to infect it.
NO, if you have NO Ram the motherboard BIOS will not let the 
system up, and will BEEP at you. Just try it one time.  And if a 
system has no ram, only rom its a controllor of some kind...  And 
if you did read into the disk cache or other cache, the system 
STILL has to excute that code before the system will be infected.
Having the virus sitting in a buffer not active is NOT being 
infected.  Yes a scanner will find it in memory but the virus HAS 
NOT been excuted, and will be over written by the next request if  
it is not excuted.
Gordon
... Programming is like SEX: One mistake and you support it.
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