Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: utoday!greenber@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: OS/2 and viruses... Message-ID: <0004.8908031152.AA04809@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 3 Aug 89 14:11:50 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 12 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu 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 Ross M. Greenberg UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016 Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438 uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212