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From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: viruses rumors
Message-ID: <6104@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 18:00:24 GMT
References: <1317@csd4.milw.wisc.edu) <7346@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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>It says,
>"Some other said that a new virus could write on disks, even if write-
>protected."

To make this very clear: It is impossible for software to write
to a write-protected floppy disk on the Amiga.  Period.

If there are any disk drives that will write to a write-protected disk,
they are either broken or have had the protection interlock defeated
intentionally.

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