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From: pro-angmar!achilles@alphalpha.com (David Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: re: Possible virus on Commodore
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Date: 31 Oct 90 01:09:48 GMT
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 > I really doubt there is a virus on your friend's Commodore 64.
 > There just simply isn't any place for it to go, since it doesn't have
 > battery backup and doesn't load in any files from disk everytime it's
 > used. [...]

What about the disk drive? Remember, the disk drive in a C64 is an
autonomous, programmable unit that could easily hide a virus. Such a
thing could spread to every executable program without much trouble,
unfortunately. Worse, the 64's disk drives are so slow that people
might not notice the extra delay... :^)
 David A. Holland

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