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- From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- Message-ID: <38124@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:52:16 GMT
- References: <1h7i3pINNi3i@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec22.174758.22891@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Dec22.174758.22891@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that there is *no way* to write
- >directly to the disk sectors under OS/2, except from a device driver. Also,
- >although an OS/2 program can freely erase important files from the (local)
- >disk, the really crucial stuff (kernel, shared libs, drivers) is still
- >protected agaomst modification and erasure.
-
- So, let's see. A virus can write itself to the disk as a driver, overwriting
- the real one. Rebooting the system will then bring in the bogus driver.
-
- Or... A virus can read a shared library as a file, modify it, and rewrite it.
-
- Or... A virus can likewise modify an ini file.
-
- Or... A virus can likewise modify cmd.exe
-
- Or...
-
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