Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL virus problem
Message-ID: <3091@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 15:06:08 GMT
References: <7967@g.ms.uky.edu> <265@coplex.UUCP> <7977@g.ms.uky.edu> <1401@uoregon.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1401@uoregon.UUCP> markv@drizzle.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering) writes:
>In article <7977@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>>>>The designers at Commodore Amiga should have never made it possible to
>>>>install a virus in such a way.  One *cannot* rely on ignorance as
>>>>protection against programmers with bad intentions.
>As for commodore's use of "secrecy" to prevent virus's from being
>created, if true, I think they found out that
>
>	a.  People are quite clever
>	b.  They probably should have told everyone about it so they
>	    could be prepared.


Uh, guys ?  Look in the RM Kernal manual , Appendix L in the white
ones, (not sure where in the A-W ones, but its there)
, called Disk Format information. Look at the first section, called 
The Boot Process.  This is not quite what I'd call a secret.
-- 
andy finkel		{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy 
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