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From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Can we get a summary?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 20:16:31 GMT
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I'm new to all this stuff, been on superminis for 10 or so years, so
could somebody post a summary of what a virus is, how it works (in *REAL*
general terms), and how it propogates?

Thanks!

[Ed. This is a frequently asked question; let me "answer" it by
referring you, and others who've asked, to some of the introductory
documents found on the VIRUS-L/comp.virus documentation archive sites
- - or to any of the introductory books on the subject, many of which
can be commonly found in bookstores.]

Who, me worry?!?
	Cliff Stevens	MT1E228  att!cbnewsj!ncas  (201)957-3902