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From: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: virus from Japan
Message-ID: <4534@plains.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 90 12:51:07 GMT
References: <94376@philabs.Philips.Com>
Reply-To: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <94376@philabs.Philips.Com> rfc@briar.Philips.Com (Robert Casey) writes:
... Note, Robert Casey posted this as a forward message from bitnet....
>
..... Etc about the NAMBA Virus and such....
>
>If, however, a computer is contaminated with both viruses, it does not
>even accept the floppy disk of the vaccine.  In this case, user should
>bring the computer to the maker and ask to change the parts.
>

Excuse me for asking but how would a virus ever manage to corrupt actual
hardware so that you have to go to the maker and ask for new parts??? 

I realize that the harddisk can get taken over by the virus but it seem that
you could just low level format it to wipe that out.....  Is there something
I'm missing here???


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