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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Locks and Viruses. Another 1.4 wish?
Message-ID: <6620@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 20:03:18 GMT
References: <17304@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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In article <17304@cup.portal.com> whirt@cup.portal.com (William Bill Hirt) writes:
>
>I'm posting this for a friend who does not have net access. E-Mail responses
>would be fine.
>
>Subject: AmigaDOS LOCK command; how safe is it?
>

The reason for LOCK is to protect yourself from yourself...
you can lock a partition so you can't accidently FORMAT it, for
example.  A virus probably wouldn't even notice you've locked
a partition.
-- 
andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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