Re: protect hard drive

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:26

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kklein@emdgat.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Ken.Klein@DaytonOH.NCR.COM) writes:

> Attached here is the source and the uuencoded object of a utility program to
> write-protect your hard disk.  I don't claim authorship of this utility,
> nor can I properly credit the original author, since I don't remember where
> it came from.  I disassembled it using CodeSmith (my favorite debugger).  
> The comments are all mine.

Please, don't rely on this program to actually write protect your hard
disk. It can be disabled and/or bypassed by a couple of dozens of ways
- most of them used by the currently existing viruses.

Regards,
Vesselin
-- 
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.0 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany

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