) (05/11/91)
Resent-From: "A. Andrew Brennan" <BRENNAAA@DUVM.BITNET>
Thought you might be interested in seeing this - don't know if
you are on this list ...
A. Andrew Brennan
{you don't know me from Adam - but he didn't have a belly button ... }
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I agree that Disk Manager PC is a fantastic product. It uses a boot
block protetcion scheme which doesn't let the user bypass it when they
boot with a floppy disk. It also has some interesting side effects
that may be worth noting --- since this program doesn't allow
modifications to the boot-block of a hard disk -- it tends to inhibit
the reproduction of boot-block type viruses. This program is NOT
marketed by mentioning this -- it simply seems to be an artifact of
the program. I attempted to infect a DMPC protected disk with a LIVE
boot block virus (of the stealth variety) and it just didn't work.
Hope that helps a bit!
Bob Martin -- Eastern KY U -- Academic Computing
Bitnet: acsmartin@eku