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- From: draco@mindspring.com (Draco Derkesthai)
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- Subject: Re: Don't try this at home.
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 06:21:37 GMT
- Organization: Websitez, Inc.
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- 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.
-
- type 'lock /?' at the command prompt. Win95 can and will lock out direct disk
- access. Most viruses will have to be re-written for Win95. There's plenty
- more that can be done to cause havoc... especially with the system registry's
- power over the system and its software.
-
- Try running Norton's Disk Editor. It can't make any changes to the disk while
- Win95 is running.
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- Draco Derkesthai
- draco@mindspring.com
- http://www.mindspring.com/~draco/
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