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Avast blocks the entire internet – again

Jason Bloomberg Silver badge

Same here. I cannot recall which virus it was but it had a detonation date to wipe everything, was adding stuff to all MS-DOS .EXE and .COM files and spreading as floppies were passed between sites. At the time 'getting infected' seemed mostly a myth, few knew of anyone who had been.

I was the lucky bugger who got to check every floppy in the company; hundreds. And, as Sod's Law would have it, it was the last one in the box which was the source for the original infection; a Driver Disk shipped with some peripheral equipment we had purchased.

That was in the Good Old Days (TM) when Scotland Yard had a Computer Forensics Division one was encouraged to report infections to. Then, as now, nothing seemed to come of it when one did.

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