Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!suhonen From: suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: OS in ROM/RAM & viruses (was: Re: TOS 2.0) Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 11:25:49 GMT References: <35495@cup.portal.com> <1238@digi.lonestar.org> <1990Nov06.213749.13906@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: mboen@nixdorf.de's message of 13 Nov 90 22:11:45 GMT In article mboen@nixdorf.de (Martin Boening) writes: Well, you'd better NEVER power up with any disk in drive A. If the boot sector is executable, it'll be executed. And that's with a ROM OS! If the boot sector is a virus, you'll get hit by a virus. That's all there is to a boot sector virus. It's true though, that there probably won't be many link viruses infesting command.com, cause there's no command.com. At least my ST boots from hd weather or not I have a bootable disk in drive A: (assuming that my hd is turned on and is running at full speed). So there is no way a virus can infect at the boot time. Those miserable Messy-Dog systems DO boot from disk if there is a bootable disk in drive A: -- Timo Suhonen I am logged in, therefore I am suhonen@funic.funet.fi suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi Moderator for ftp site funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) Atari ST dir Ajatukset(?) ovat omiani (jos eiv{t ole varastettuja), eiv{t yliopiston.