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Like normal viruses, computer viruses need a host to survive and grow. This ideal host is the promiscuous floppy disk. Exchanging data with any desktop it comes across, the floppies can infect an entire computer lab, campus or the world...
...modify a popularized phrase, "the network is the disk...
Everyone with an account on fas.harvard.edu has at least 6.5MB of disk space in his or her home directory. Some of this space is consumed by Pine mail folders, Web page files and other configuration files. However, most users have enough room to store at least a few floppy disks' worth of data there as well...
While working on your paper (or any other file, for that matter), save it to the computer's local hard disk. But before you leave, do not save it on a floppy. Instead, transfer the file to your Faculty of Arts and Sciences (fas) account...
Some final thoughts: first, keeping files in your home directory solves more than just the problem of virus transfer. If you have ever had to use a file on both Mac and PC hardware, you know the nightmare of moving diskettes between machines. Using the network avoids this because disk format is not an issue...