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Article #4330Floppy Booting (PC)
From: A. Padgett Peterson
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:35
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:35
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mramey@u.washington.edu (Mike Ramey) writes: >One of my questions is this: VSHIELD intercepts a keyboard reboot and >checks for the presence of an infected diskette in the boot diskette >drive; it does not allow booting from a (boot-sector?) infected >diskette. Does VIRSTOP have this function? I might mention that the FreeWare NoFBoot (one of the FixUtils) will accomplish this by denying reboots if a floppy is in the A drive. Since rarely do users really want to boot from a floppy, this can be an effective defense (of course if they *really* want to boot from a floppy, VSHIELD cannot stop a fast finger either...) Warmly, Padgett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cert!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Floppy Booting (PC) Message-ID: <0006.9212171857.AA14855@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 15 Dec 92 21:35:26 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 15 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu