[comp.virus] OS/2 and viruses...

greenber@uunet.uu.net (08/03/89)

OS/2 makes some hardware calls for things such as formatting a disk.
It goes around the bios.  As such, none of the monitoring type programs
are gonna stop an OS/2 FORMAT command to trigger.

Found that out the hard way! :-)

Ross

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