[comp.virus] write-protection viruses

simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel) (06/01/90)

Write protection on the Apple II computer is done in software; on this
machine a virus could overcome write-protection on a floppy disk.

I once used a program that "degaused" a floppy disk in 15 seconds or
so on the Apple II, even if the floppy disk was write protected.