G'day Niels

02 Apr 04 18:25, Niels Petersen wrote to All:

 ac>>> I think the most harmful thing possible was to
 ac>>> redefine the keys on the keyboard though.

 NP>> That's still enough to erase someones hard disk

 NP>> And there are boot sector viruses that only needs a floppy to be
 NP>> inserted in the drive as I recall.  No need to run a file.

 DD> Booting a file "runs" it.

 DD> You only needed to put the Floppy into the drive AFTER the machine 
 DD> was operational

 DD> Boot sector viruses seem to have lost favour in recent years. They 
 DD> took some skill to write, not just access to a "script kiddie
toolbox".

 NP> I could send you some floppies if you wish to become reacquainted

Somehow I don't think they'd have much effect on this ext2 formatted drive....

Regards,
David

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