Virus attacks on PGP

John Lull lull at acm.org
Tue Nov 21 10:17:43 PST 1995


On Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:34:46 -0500, you wrote:

> Seeing as PGP is quite small the simplest and cheapest read-only device
> would be a write-protected floppy disk.
> 
> Could a virus write to a write-protected disk?  I'm not sure if the
> protection is done in the BIOS or the drive hardware.

In the drive hardware.







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