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Karl Monaghan karl at spindrome.com
Wed Apr 18 17:17:58 IST 2001


>  A friend got a "ripper" virus from some machines in DCU years back. Nasty
> git; it was a DOS TSR that byteswapped the first two bytes of every few
> hundred disk blocks that you wrote out. I think.
Maynooth was riddled with that a few years back - my machine got it after
one of the lads in the house brought an assignment with it on it.

I've been sent the lovebug twice and the snow white one once, but neither
did any damage.

K.





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