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Article #3169Re: Prevent hard disk infection? (PC)
From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 09:17
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 09:17
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MONAT%UOTTAWA@acadvm1.uottawa.ca writes: >Is there any way to prevent a virus from infecting a hard disk when >you cold boot with an infected diskette in drive a: ? Not without additional hardware I'm afraid. Any program run from AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS is run after the disk has booted, and (possibly) infected the hard disk. You can get software which will detect the infection as soon as it happens, but to prevent it, you need additional hardware, which will prevent writes to the hard disk, unless some conditions are met. - -- Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland | Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) | Reserved for future expansion E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Prevent hard disk infection? (PC) Message-ID: <0005.9101101857.AA07273@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Jan 91 09:17:07 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List <VIRUS-L@LEHIIBM1> Lines: 16 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu