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Subject: Re:Possible virus on Commodoore
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Date: 1 Nov 90 23:17:00 GMT
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In Digest V3 #177 someone mentioned that a virus could hide in the disk
drive since it has RAM, ROM, etc...  However, the RAM is cleared whenever
the unit is turned off.  Therefore, any virus would have to somehow store
itself in the drive whenever the computer is used, which can't be done.

However, as I mentioned before, someone running the GEOS operating system
could probably get a GEOS-specific virus...

Besides, considering the abundancy of Commodore hackers, I'd assume that if
a virus was possible, it would have been written by now...