MAINT@UQAM.BITNET (Peter Jones) (01/16/90)
On Sun, 14 Jan 90 18:02:00 -0500 WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA said, in VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 15 Jan 1990 Volume 3 : Issue 11: >Subject: Shrink-Wrapped Software > >Shrink-wrap that is applied by the vendor would help to serve that >purpose. However, few original vendors use labelled shrink-wrap and >many distributors and retailers can apply shrink wrap. If vendors used read-only diskettes, contamination of the distribution diskettes would become almost impossible for casual users. The user would have to tamper with the write-protect switch on his diskette reader to allow alteration of a diskette. Early Apple-IIs are the only machines I know of in which diskette write protection can be overcome by software. Peter Jones MAINT@UQAM (514)-987-3542 "Life's too short to try and fill up every minute of it" :-)