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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS -- Just say "Why?"
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.210125.10172@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 21:01:25 GMT
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Here is something interesting from an IBM style person who readers of comp.
virus will recognize.

In comp.virus padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (Padgett Peterson) writes:
>        I think it is time stand back from the PC and take a fresh
>look at how protection can be placed on the system. Too many products
>today rely on MS-DOS and its documentation to protect PCs. Since many
>functions of DOS and Windows are either mis-documented or
>un-documented and since there exist many opportunities for malicious
>software to attack before DOS, this is obviously not the place to
>start.

This is interesting from the point of the "mis-documented" and "un-documented"
point.  He's talking about virus detection and prevention, but in doing
so he points out that MS-DOS is (my words) a cheap hack.  Not well done
and well planned like the MacOS.


Brian aslakson@cs.umn.edu
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