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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: 4096 and 1260 Viruses (PC)
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Date: 2 Feb 90 23:19:13 GMT
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John McAfee writes:
:	The strangest part of the virus is that it is also able to
:trap all other disk reads and writes, and whenever an infected file is
:accessed by any program, the virus performs a disinfection of the
:program on the fly.
 ^^^^^^^ infected file?

As a BBS sysop, I find this a particularly amusing feature: it assures
my users that anything downloaded from my BBS is not infected with
this class of virus!  The concept of BBS's as *the safest* source of
software (at least in this one regard) is rather amusing.

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