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- From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- Message-ID: <38104@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:32:16 GMT
- References: <38052@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Dec21.154224.19324@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec21.154224.19324@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Andy Finkel (andy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
- >: >
- >: >False. If the section of the OS which writes to the disk is protected
- >: >and there is no other way to write except through the OS, writing a
- >: >virus becomes more difficult (not impossible, just difficult)
- >:
- >: That's not right. In fact, that's not even wrong. First of all,
- >: memory protection has little to do with writing to the disk.
- >: For instance, the section of code that writes to the disk
- >: on the Amiga is in ROM. ROM is generally considered to be
- >: rather 'protected'.
- >:
- >
- >Right, but there's nothing preventing a nasty application from bypassing
- >your ROM routines and talking directly to the disk hardware, screwing things
- >up. On a system with properly-implemented memory protection, however, it's
- >much more difficult (if at all possible) to write such an application.
-
- If you are interested in the subject, you might want to do some research
- sometime. The Internet Worm is fairly interesting, since it ran
- on Unix boxes. (remember, Unix has protected memory).
-
- >| JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
-
-
- andy
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- andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
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- "Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."
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