Fat Virus

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bapopik at AOL.COM <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:20 PM
Subject: Fat Virus


>     "Experiments Suggest 'Fat Virus'" from the AP is on AOL news today.
>There might be a little confusion on this one--"FAT Virus" also stands for
>"File Allocation Transfer."


If you're thinking of the filesystem used in MS-DOS and Windows, that's File
Allocation Table, FAT, later upgraded to FAT16 and FAT32 for the later
incarnations of Windows.

File Allocation Transfer I've not heard before...

bkd