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In article <1h7erhINN7d4@cs.tut.fi>, pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380) writes:

>> If not, the drive will crap out 
>> ("GENERAL FAILURE READING DRIVE A:", etc.), and the FAT and BOOT sectors 
>> of the disk are destroyed (interestingly, ViruSafe reports that the disks 
>> are infected with Michelangelo, although they are most certainly not).
> 
>     Umm .. didn't read this part when I wrote the last sentence ...
>     I still think it is some ... *gasp* ... VIRUS. 

Except that (1)In order for Michelangelo to spread to other disks, you 
need to boot from and infected disk, (2)Even if there were a Michelangelo 
infection, there would be some trace of the FAT and BOOT left, and (3)I 
tried booting from a known clean floppy with the hard drive physically 
disconnected from the machine.  The only possible way there could be a 
viral infection is if it were living in the CMOS, which Michelangelo does 
not do.  Besides, I also switched out the BIOS which would have eliminated 
that possibility anyway.

-- John

p.s. Sorry about the post to comp.os.msdos.misc.  I wasn't watching where 
I was.  Followups should be in c.s.i.p.h. now.
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