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Virus descriptions vs. viruses

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From: victor porguen
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:36
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Writes ..!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta (G. Youngblood):

> 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.

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. 

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.

Now, I wonder: which is the lesser evil?

(just kidding)
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From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
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Subject: Virus descriptions vs. viruses
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