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Article #4761Re: SUMMARY: FORM virus infection in Germany (PC)
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:30
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:30
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cfsc-hga-gc-mis@augsburg-emh1.army.mil (David Hanson) writes: > Thanks to all who wrote to tell me to use SYS.COM. However, I don't > think that I would recommend SYS without the caveat that you may lose > some FAT information. Areyah alludes to it in his response, and in > reality, there can be quite a bit of destruction. Could you please elaborate -how- could SYS.COM cause destruction of some FAT information? Assuming that you are using the same DOS version your DOS partition is formatted with, of course. But even if you don't, all damage I can think about is that your DOS partition could become non-bootable or SYS could just refuse to work (i.e., "no room...")... Regards, Vesselin - -- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN < PGP 2.1 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FORM virus infection in Germany (PC) Message-ID: <0011.9301062041.AA14693@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 5 Jan 93 18:30:02 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 20 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu