Re: virus protection on apple ][ e's

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

If operating strictly off of floppies, the danger of virus infection is
nearly zero.  I know of almost no viruses for the Apple ][; the only one I
know of is one that puts a viral form of DOS 3.3 onto any disk it
encounters.  As near as I can tell, this particular virus is benign,
except that it changes the DISK VOLUME header.
It's easy to get rid of, too, by just copying a clean DOS off of another disk.

Since the vast majority of ]['s are floppy-based, Apple ][ viruses are rare.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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