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- From: tchnd-au@garnet.berkeley.edu (Yuval Oren)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:38:38 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec28.074914.7584@microsoft.com> <1hohvbINNr47@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1992Dec29.192353.1308@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.192353.1308@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
- >And, btw, viruses are not the "real" reason microsoft moved to unwriteable
- >disks - at least not for ms-dos - it's because of the number of folks who
- >"accidently" trashed their originals, then needed to reinstall. Special
- >drives which can write to a "write-protected" disk obviously exist (like
- >our duplicators) but most folks don't have them.
- >
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- If you got the software on 3.5's, couldn't you just put that little
- tab thing in from another disk, put a virus on it, then take the tab
- out?
-
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- |Yuval Oren |
- |yuval@ocf.berkeley.edu |
- | "One spoiled green bird is worth two cooks in the other grass broth."|
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