Re: WordPerfect/virus

[adrissmn@gopher.science.wayne.edu (Avi Drissman)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: I did once catch the "BlackOut" virus,
: but that was on every copy of the original ROTB demo disk and it wasn't
: harmful, just annoying :).

Well, mostly harmless, but if it rewrote the boot blocks of a
copy-protected disk, the disk was toast. Happened to a friend of mine.

Avi

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