On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:52:34 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:
> The first virus I found on my system was on a floppy. One of the
> Stonedxxx versions. Then I ran McAfee's SCAN86 v4.0.2 and found my whole
> system including many floppies were infected with the Fantasm.1000 virus.
> Now I just downloaded, installed and ran McAfee's SCANPM v3.2.2 and found
> my hard drives so far completly infected with the _1000 virus. I'd like to
> know where all these viruses are coming from. I don't have any records of
> who I sent files to, I know there's been a few. If you remember check them.
> If there there, believe me it wasn't done intentionally. I never used to
> worry about viruses and I guess I should have.
Hello Mark:
If you have ever made the mistake of booting your computer with a
boot-sector virus on a floppy in the A drive, then your hard drive is
infected. It matters not whether the floppy was a system disk. Epidemics
of boot-sector virri infestations in computers are analogous to epidemics
of "social" diseases, and, if you think about it, the virri are transmitted
in a manner that is amazingly "similar". I think you get the idea.
Enough said!
Sam Heywood
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