DD>        What about systems that HAVE no ram at ALL, and the only memory th
DD>have to work with is below the 1024k barrier, such as 8088, and AT-class
DD>machines? Can't they be infected as well?
Memory below the barrier is STILL RAM.
DD>        But having it in memory WILL eventually infect SOMETHING on the
DD>system, whether it be files, or the boot sector of a disk when formatted,
DD>worse.
Not if it never gets pointed to. I remember reading about several
viruses that were poorly written and can't proliferate simply because
the code gets loaded, but never gets executed.
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