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
