On 2015-10-14 15:46, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/14/2015 09:02 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Back on MsDOS times, on computers with two floppies, as was mine, it was also typical to have the system on on one disk, perhaps "the" application, and the data files on the other. And the system/application disk could have the write tab in disable position, thus impeding damage by virii.
LOL! Then there were macroviruses in things like the documents!
Not yet, not at that time :-) As far as I remember, virii at that time were of two classes: boot sector, or tag at the end of an executable. You could detect the second type just by looking at the changed size of the executable. And when they were active, available RAM size changed, somewhat. Macro virii depended on the targets using the same application with macros, and there were not that many. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)