DANIEL%NCSUVM.BITNET@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.Edu (Daniel Carr) (08/24/89)
i bet this question has been asked before, so please excuse me, but is it possible for a virus to infect a locked macintosh disk? thanks, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel C. Carr <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>> North Carolina State University Computing Center <<<<<<< dcc@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu daniel@ncsuvm.BITNET d.c.carr, GEnie
trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) (08/26/89)
DANIEL%NCSUVM.BITNET@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.Edu (Daniel Carr) writes: >i bet this question has been asked before, so please excuse me, but >is it possible for a virus to infect a locked macintosh disk? If the diskette is hardware locked (ie: the little slide is slid so that you can see a hole) then the hardware won't write onto that disk, so if you stick it into an infected machine it won't get infected. If, on the other hand, files on an unlocked disk are locked in _software_, they may be fair game to a persnickety virus. - -- (^;-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-;^) Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc. !uunet!biar!trebor | trebor@biar.UUCP ``I can read your mind - right now, you're thinking I'm full of it...''