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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Virus descriptions vs. viruses
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 03:36:27 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Writes ..!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta (G. Youngblood):
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- > Look for a file called VSUMX???.zip (or arj or whatever).
- > It is hyper text of viruses that you can look up infomration
- > about the stoned virus.
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- Ah... well... actually, I look at it this way: the Stoned virus,
- if it infects a diskette with a LOT of files on it, MIGHT erase some
- of the filename entries by displacing the boot sector code into
- them. That's a few files lost, sort of.
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- The VSUMX??.zip (or arj or whatever) file, on the other hand, will
- SURELY overwrite about 500 kilobytes of disk space, by taking them
- over for itself. That's before decompresion.
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- Now, I wonder: which is the lesser evil?
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- (just kidding)
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