-=> Quoting Gordon Frey to David Desrosiers <=-
 GF> NO, if you have NO Ram the motherboard BIOS will not let the
 GF> system up, and will BEEP at you. Just try it one time.  And if a
 GF> system has no ram, only rom its a controllor of some kind...  And
 GF> if you did read into the disk cache or other cache, the system
 GF> STILL has to excute that code before the system will be infected.
        What about systems that HAVE no ram at ALL, and the only memory they
have to work with is below the 1024k barrier, such as 8088, and AT-class
machines? Can't they be infected as well?
 GF> Having the virus sitting in a buffer not active is NOT being
 GF> infected.  Yes a scanner will find it in memory but the virus HAS
 GF> NOT been excuted, and will be over written by the next request if
 GF> it is not excuted.
        But having it in memory WILL eventually infect SOMETHING on the
system, whether it be files, or the boot sector of a disk when formatted, or
worse.
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
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