home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news
- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FORM virus infection in Germany (PC)
- Message-ID: <0011.9301062041.AA14693@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:30:02 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
- Lines: 20
- Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu
-
- cfsc-hga-gc-mis@augsburg-emh1.army.mil (David Hanson) writes:
-
- > Thanks to all who wrote to tell me to use SYS.COM. However, I don't
- > think that I would recommend SYS without the caveat that you may lose
- > some FAT information. Areyah alludes to it in his response, and in
- > reality, there can be quite a bit of destruction.
-
- Could you please elaborate -how- could SYS.COM cause destruction of
- some FAT information? Assuming that you are using the same DOS version
- your DOS partition is formatted with, of course. But even if you don't,
- all damage I can think about is that your DOS partition could become
- non-bootable or SYS could just refuse to work (i.e., "no room...")...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
- - --
- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
- < PGP 2.1 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
- e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
-