minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) (06/02/90)
USERASSJ@LNCC.BITNET (Alberto Sulaiman Sade Junior) writes: | SOME TIMES AGO I READ THAT IS POSSIGLE A VIRUS INFECT A DISKETTE | PHISICALLY PROTECTED. I KNOW IT IS AN OLD DISCUSSION BUT IS IT REALLY | POSSIBLE ? | | [Ed. Yes, this discussion has come up a few times before. After much | heated discussion, the consensus was that (on a PC), the write | protection is implemented by hardware in the floppy disk drive | (according to the IBM Tech. Ref. schematics). At least in the case of | PCs, I urge us to consider this matter closed unless someone can come | up with conclusive proof to the contrary (i.e., send me a piece of | source code that proves it).] Let me add that all macintoshes implement write protection for floppies through a hardware mechanism. - -- | _ /| | Robert Minich | | \'o.O' | Oklahoma State University | | =(___)= | minich@a.cs.okstate.edu | | U | - Bill sez "Ackphtth" |