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Article #17395Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition
From: Jani Patanen
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 21:20
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 21:20
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Alok K. Dhir (adhir@betelgeuse.iagi.com) wrote: > How about a format program which writes a bootsector program more user-friendly > than the current one. I, for one, really _hate_ having to reboot just because I > accidentally booted with an OS/2 formatted floppy in the drive. Even MS-DOS > allows you to remove the disk and retry the boot...and its been that way for That's one reason for boot sector viruses getting so popular. One puts a non bootable infected diskette in drive, gets the message 'non system disk..[snip]' user removes the disk and presses a key. This way the virus is still in memory and infects the HD. -- japa@mits.mdata.fi | Don't worry, be happy! jpatanen@hit.fi | Finger for PGP public key
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