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Subject:	Re: TEMPEST.TEM=virus??
From:	John Chin <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:53:16 -0400
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At 12:15 AM 6/8/1998 JIM MEAGHER wrote:
>
>If you are booting from a known clean floppy it is IMPOSSIBLE for any
>virus on the hard drive to infect the floppy ---- unless --- you activate
>an application on the hard drive.
>
>All virii are DORMANT until you activate the file/executable which
>contains them. This includes boot sector virus flavors also.
>
>As long as you do not boot from the hard drive (which is what I said
>in the beginning), or activate any application on the hard drive,
>then the virus can not do anything.


Some of the new viruses are infecting the EEPROM, the
same way as a flash BIOS upgrade will change the code.
These viruses will not let you boot to a floppy and will boot
to the infected disk.

Regards,

John Chin

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