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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virus Protection ?
Message-ID: <1894.AA1894@americ>
Date: 9 Sep 89 15:35:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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With all of the occasional hoopla concerning virus's that add X # bytes to 
random executables in your C directory why not take some VERY simple pre-
cautions. Use those script bits. I've gone through my whole C directory and
changed the script bits to ----r-e-. This should alert me to any phenomonem
that would cause a write to those files and protect the files to boot !

I got em in one swipe using the list lformat command:

cd c:
list > ram:temp lformat "protect %S -wd"
execute ram:temp

viola the drive churned for a minute and all files were protected from 
being overwritten.

Just to confirm I tried copying a file named list from ram: to my c dir
and got the error message that c:list was protected from deletion :-)


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