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From: diblasi@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov (Thomas DiBlasi)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Is virus infection by inserting floppy disk possible? (PC) (Mac)
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Date: 9 Apr 91 14:33:56 GMT
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Hi,

I've been monitoring Virus-l digest since December and now for the
first time have a question.

Is it possible for a virus, trojan, worm, etc. to infect a hard disk
or RAM simply by inserting an infected floppy into a drive without
execution??

I thought I saw something on how some PC's /MAC's can recognize the
presence of a floppy after insertion without the benefit of an access
command being entered.