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From: zuber@unigs.CH (Zuberbuehler Ueli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: viruses rumors
Message-ID: <123@unigs.CH>
Date: 4 Mar 89 12:44:29 GMT
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Organization: UNIGS Switzerland
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Write protection should be handled by the disk drive unit.
Most disk drives do not handle this correctly. All what they do is to set
a signal to controller that this disk is write protected. If the software
doesn`t check this line, then you could write data on a write protected
disk.