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Article #2830Re: Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )
From: Yuval Oren
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:38
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:38
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In article <1992Dec29.192353.1308@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes: >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. > If you got the software on 3.5's, couldn't you just put that little tab thing in from another disk, put a virus on it, then take the tab out? -- ________________________________________________________________________ |Yuval Oren | |yuval@ocf.berkeley.edu | | "One spoiled green bird is worth two cooks in the other grass broth."|
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!tchnd-au From: tchnd-au@garnet.berkeley.edu (Yuval Oren) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P ) Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:38:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1hqgguINNdaj@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Dec28.074914.7584@microsoft.com> <1hohvbINNr47@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1992Dec29.192353.1308@microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu