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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Key virus NOT harmless
Message-ID: <9986@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 12:22:24 GMT
References: <3117@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <3117@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu8053@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt) writes:
...[edited]...
>I just ran into this virus yesterday and it is not even in the general sense
>harmless!  It ate two of my disks last night before I could isolate it and
>kill it.

Your description of the events is not characteristic of the "KEY" virus.
If you have a surviving copy of what hit you, please contact me as soon
as possible. The "KEY" virus will not do anything to any disk other
than reproduce itself onto the boot sector, unless the "KEY" disk has
turned up.

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* George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA *
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