Floppy Booting (PC)

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1 total messages Started by A. Padgett Peterson Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:35

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Author: A. Padgett Peterson
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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