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From: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Write Protect (virus protection)
Message-ID: <1855@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 88 22:40:53 GMT
Reply-To: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Patrick White)
Organization: PUCC Land, USA
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Keywords: virus, write protect, defeat
Summary: can the write-protect tab be defeated?


   [I don't have schematics of the different floppy drives so I'm
asking this question of those who may know]

   At what level is the write protect tab enforced?  At the software
or hardware level.  And is there anyway of defeating it via software?

   ie: is there any way a virus could defeat the write-protect tab on
a disk (perhaps by fiddling disk drive registers)?   I don't want to
know how, just if it is possible.  It's a sobering thought if it is.


-- Pat White
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