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- Subject: Re: Don't try this at home.
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:23:51 GMT
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- On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 07:04:19 GMT, brian1@oz.net wrote:
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- >
- >>Beyond that, Win95 won't even RUN most conventional viruses, as it will
- >>not allow direct disk access. Try it, it's for real. Out of 20 viruses I
- >>tried to run under Win95, only 1 even attempted to run, but ran
- >>incorrectly, and caused a reboot, without major consequence. If that is
- >>bloated code, well, bloat me.
- >What a load of crap. I supose you're going to tell us that Norton
- >Utilities for Win95 doesn't work. Windows NT is the one that doesn't
- >allow hardware writes by software. MOST viruses WILL run just fine on
- >Win95 as it is still sitting on top of DOS.
- >
-
- Norton Utilities has nothing to do with scanners, you must mean Norton
- Anti-virus.
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