4 Jan
2013
4 Jan
'13
11:23 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, geneb wrote:
I would be astonished if any (and I mean _any_) virus
scanner would find a
legitimate virus on any media consumed by 8 bit computers.
although a boot-sector virus might write to track 0 sector 1
of an alien disk, it would be inert to that 8 bit computer.
The virus scanner, even if it found the "boot sector" to be
infected, would then CRASH when it couldn't understand the
alien directory.
Graceful recovery from unexpected conditions is not the
strongpoint of design in this era.