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Ryst Helmut
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 Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject: A: Drive virus? |
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Gang,
Silly silly question, but humour me. Is it possible for someone to "import" a virus through the use of a floppy disk (A: drive)? Liklihood?
Thanks.
!Shoosh
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Demophobe
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| You mean to have a disk infected and then somehow it gets to your system? Yes, very possible...but you would have to run something from the disk....an .exe file of some kind. |
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the saint
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| You mean to have a disk infected and then somehow it gets to your system? Yes, very possible...but you would have to run something from the disk....an .exe file of some kind. |
or... copy a file over that has a virus embedded in it like a macro virus for a Word doc or a javascript virus in an html page... right? |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Wasn't that the plot of "Independence Day"? |
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Pangit
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Or if you left the disk in the drive when you booted up and there was a nasty batch file on it. |
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Ryst Helmut
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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thanks guys...I just needed to make sure I was doing the right thing by hiding the A: from our students (computer lab). We currently have NO anti-virus software....  
!shoosh
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Demophobe
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
| Demophobe wrote: |
| You mean to have a disk infected and then somehow it gets to your system? Yes, very possible...but you would have to run something from the disk....an .exe file of some kind. |
or... copy a file over that has a virus embedded in it like a macro virus for a Word doc or a javascript virus in an html page... right? |
Sure, but then the ".exe" simply becomes Office. anyways, they will always need to be run somehow. |
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