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From: decvax!bunker!shap@sei.cmu.edu (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Is this a virus? (PC)
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Date: 5 Sep 89 13:33:44 GMT
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In article <0004.8909011255.AA07043@ge.sei.cmu.edu> 87303012@KRSNUCC1.BITNET wr
ites:
>                                                      When I copy some
>files to a floppy but I misput a write protected diskette, I find the
>error massage "retry, ...". At this time, if I answer "r" to the
>massage and puting a non-protected diskette, then the FAT and
>DIRECTORY of the protected diskette is transfered to the second non
>protected diskette(and the files that I copied to). Is this a DOS's
>bug or a virus?

Neither.  It is normal behavior, given the circumstances.  It is obviously
not what you _want_ to happen, but then again, the proper answer in the
given situation is to _A_bort the operation and start again.
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