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To: Gottfried who wrote (16177)	2/11/2001 4:26:12 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Plus, you can actually look forward to a total virus wipeout because it will force you to format your HDs and start over clean.<vbg> Besides, we need someone who doesn't run with the crowd. Gottfried I wipe my HD every couple months,whether it needs it or not.:) I'm so used to complete reinstalls that I can do them in about 3 hours. I just pulled this off Google search.This is just an excerpt from the pdf file.Interesting. Ed Symantec AntiVirus Research Center Learn More About Viruses and Worms What is the difference between a computer virus and a computer worm? Viruses are computer programs that are designed to spread themselves from one file to another on a single computer. A virus might rapidly infect every application file on an individual computer, or slowly infect the documents on that computer, but it does not intentionally try to spread itself from that computer to other computers. In most cases, that's where humans come in. We send e-mail document attachments, trade programs on diskettes, or copy files to file servers. When the next unsuspecting user receives the infected file or disk, they spread the virus to their computer, and so on. Worms, on the other hand, are insidious because they rely less (or not at all) upon human behavior in order to spread themselves from one computer to others. The computer worm is a program that is designed to copy itself from one computer to another over a network (e.g. by using e-mail). The worm spreads itself to many computers over a network, and doesn't wait for a human being to help. This means that computer worms spread much more rapidly than computer viruses.