21 Oct
2016
21 Oct
'16
7:01 p.m.
On 10/21/2016 09:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Certain college administrators declared that every machine that was
infected would have to be destroyed; "it is impossible to remove the
virus". Have I mentioned a colleague whom they tried to terminate for
removing machines from dumpsters?
At UC Berkeley, agressive scanning was done in student computer labs,
and "hundreds" of infected disks were found and DESTROYED. ZERO
copies were retained for ANY analysis. Nor was even a count kept, nor
followup to try to get students with infected disks to scan their home
machines.
Fred,
You nailed it, panic in the streets by people that should know better.
Back when I always though he was a criminal and behind it.
Also if anyone destroyed a drive or media with it it was out of shear
stupidity as a wipe/reformat
was all that was needed as the boot-block was not special it was just
another block on the media.
Floppies with it were bulk erased and reformatted.
My favorite formatter was my S100 crate with CP/M, Its impossible to
give a single user OS
without background processing a virus.
I got a lot of free drives around then. A few are still in use.
Allison