Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )

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From: Jen Kilmer
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:23

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In article <1hohvbINNr47@crcnis1.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
>jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:

[some manufacturers ship unwriteable diskettes]

>>From a support standpoint, this is seriously cool (unless the user cut
>>a notch in a set of 5.25"s, no viruses, no accidently-deleted-the-file-we
>>-need, etc :)
>
>Just copy the disk and you have an infectable medium.
>

Quite true. However, if a virus is suspected or paranoia is running rampant,
the original disks can be used instead of the backups, n'est pas?

And, btw, viruses are not the "real" reason microsoft moved to unwriteable
disks - at least not for ms-dos - it's because of the number of folks who
"accidently" trashed their originals, then needed to reinstall. Special
drives which can write to a "write-protected" disk obviously exist (like
our duplicators) but most folks don't have them.

-jen

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Subject: Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )
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