home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: Viruses & unwriteable disks (was Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.053230.22135@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 05:32:30 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1hohvbINNr47@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1992Dec29.192353.1308@microsoft.com> <1hqgguINNdaj@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Lines: 20
-
- In article <1hqgguINNdaj@agate.berkeley.edu> tchnd-au@garnet.berkeley.edu (Yuval Oren) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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?
-
- Yup. Just like you could cut a notch into a 5.25". It doesn't guard
- against determined and deliberate damage - just accidental infection
- or damage.
-
- (I bet you could alter tylenol capsules and reseal those packages too...)
-
- -jen
- my name isn't Bill and I'm not very very rich and I'm not speaking for msft
-