Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David M. Chess) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Is this a virus? (PC) Message-ID: <0002.8909051137.AA16953@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 1 Sep 89 00:00:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 11 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu > ...if I answer "r" to the > massage and puting a non-protected diskette, then the FAT and > DIRECTORY of the protected diskette is transfered to the second non > protected diskette(and the files that I copied to). DOS has always done this, I think. I believe some versions of the documentation Strongly Warn against switching diskettes during the "Abort, Retry..." message. I realize that may not be much consolation! But it's not a virus, at least... DC