Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!emory!utkcs2!andrew From: andrew@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: OS in ROM/RAM & viruses (was: Re: TOS 2.0) Message-ID: <1990Nov14.140643.15703@cs.utk.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 14:06:43 GMT References: <1990Nov06.213749.13906@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@cs.utk.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Univ of TN, Knoxville - CS Department Lines: 13 In article suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes: >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. > That's interesting... I happen to have a hard disk too, and my floppy is viri-protected (I assume by a program in the boot sector) by George Woodside's vkiller. Anyway, even though I boot from the hd, it always executes the boot sector on the floppy ! One of us has to be wrong, then... -andrew krzywdzinski (andrew@cs.utk.edu)