Re: Viruses and zipped files

Robert Hawk Geeslin (rhawk@galaxy.galstar.com)
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 09:42:12 EDT

Hi!
I wonder if that's the same fellow who tried to sell me a "light pump"
to clean up the last little scraps of light that might remain in unusual
places in my office after I threw the switch to extinguish them? This
guy says that you just can't be too careful, some light may remain in
deGaussed places around the monitors, between the file cabinets, and in
RAM chips that are not intentionally and completely flushed. What do you
think? Does anything remain after power is removed?

Cordially,
R*

Meda Pittser <ab070@oak-web.washington-ch.oh.us> wrote:
> A local vendor/technician just told me that if you load an anti-virus
> program on the hard drive, unless it is set to scan every time the machine
> is booted, you can run into problems if there is a virus on the machine. He
> explained that the virus will remain in the memory. So, he suggested that
> we use a systems boot disk each time we scan for viruses, and use a floppy
> with the program on it. (This is for stand-alones). Is this accurate
> information?

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