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Re: Virus Advice needed

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:23
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bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes:

>BTW, the little program in the boot record is run not only during
>booting, but any time the computer needs to know what medium is in the
>drive. 

Eh, no - it is *read* every now and then, but only run on boot-up.


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