Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/11/27/04:17:12
"Packard" (packard AT blueriver DOT net) writes:
> Indeed, turning off a Win95 machine, without shutting down completely can
> leave file fragments (run scandisk through DOS mode) and they may/may not
> turn into viruses.
I've been using Intel machines for eight years and Win 95 for three, and
have seen and nuked many many lost clusters in my time, and I've never had
a lost cluster spontaneously become a virus! Lost clusters are just
wasting disk space until you nuke them. There is no way for a virus to be
spontaneously created on any kind of computer (except maybe a Tierra like
evolution simulator, given a lot of time, but I digress) from anything
except the spreading of an existing virus from another file.
As far as a bad shutdown of W95 is concerned, 9 times out of 10 it does
nothing; other times I have had lost clusters appear (something to do with
deleted files), and in theory a file that was open for writing at the time
can be corrupted because the write-back cache never got written back. EXEs
(other than self-modifying ones perhaps, and then only if they were
running at the time) shouldn't be affected.
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