Thursday December 22 1994 19:55, Robert King wrote to Brian May:

 RK> #2, Protected mode means nothing to the virus programmer.

Ok, then try overwriting the kernal without having your program terminated.

 RK> #3, Even a DOS based program can read/write to HPFS drives under OS/2
 RK>     just as they do in DOS. NO VIRUS uses BIOS/DOS calls for reads and
 RK>     writes. Such operations are performed at the port level which, as
 RK>     you apparently aren't aware, bypasses the operating system entirely.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.  A port level driver
for a ST-506 lookalike drive would be about 1K, and code to read a FAT
volume and find given files to infect is about 10K.  Most viruses are
smaller than 11KB.

 RK> -+- Simplex/2 BBS (v1.07.00Beta [OS/2])

Simple software for simple minds, eh?

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