In a message dated 9/3/02 3:24:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Could you elaborate on the format not removing viruses. I have always
> been under the impression that this got rid of viruses. Could you name a
> couple that tend to remain after a format, also? Now you've got my
> wheels turning.
>

Hey Tom, I'd like to try for a second besides howard following up. Try and
think of it this way: Your computer has 2 places to store info, 1 the hard
drive 2 the ram memory. so what these hackers have done is have the virus
copy itself into a piece of ram every time you boot so if your format the
drive it replaces itself back onto the clean drive when you reinstall and run
your operating system.

Dennis Dittmar
Maspeth NewYork

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