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From: DAVID@BGUVM.BITNET (David de Leeuw)
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Subject: Does 4096 attack boot sectors ? (Was: We have been hit !!!) (PC)
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Date: 1 Aug 90 09:33:03 GMT
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I wrote that 4096 does attack the boot sector.

David M. Chess and Y. Radai doubt this.

I should state that my observation was based on circumstantial
evidence only: four computers here refused to boot after massive
attacks by 4096. Also Michael Greve's original letter states that his
computers would not boot anymore. After antiviral cleaning and SYS the
systems boot again. I will try to isolate the virus to have it
compared by Y. Radai with the "original" 4096.

Are mutations also known in computer viruses ?

David de Leeuw
Ben Gurion Univ of the Negev