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- Subject: Re: Don't try this at home.
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 05:43:41 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <4ekb6d$bbt@news.nstn.ca>
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- In <310b8e4e.6067771@news.paonline.com>, RCcyber@hell.com writes:
- >On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 07:04:19 GMT, brian1@oz.net wrote:
- >
- >>
- >>>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.
-
- I belive he's talking about hardware access, and the way Norton has the same access
- id did back in DOS 6.22 Win 3.x
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