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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:02:20 +1030

Re: [plug] [Fwd: New Microsoftspeak]

Stephen Donaldson wrote:

> Some serious head scratching on this statement that format leaves a virus that can
> be activated!!!
> 
> Enlightenment required plz

Hi Steve,

I've definately come across some boot sector viruses in my Windows admin.
lifetime that are not removed by simply formatting a hard drive. They
have required that not only the virus be removed from user data (by a
cleaning agent or by formatting the drive), but also be removed by re-
creating a clean MBR on the disk.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew Hill

"Right now, I'd happily snort gunk from the sink if it would take
my brain somewhere away from here...." - JB

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