This is certainly a problem for people on Win9x machines, and fortunately no-one else. Under win9x there are some tricks you can do, like temporarily write-protecting your hard drive(there is a program for that), or switching it off or whatever.

Clever DOS coders can write a quick assembly routine to grab control of the BIOS and DOS read/write routines.

However in Win9x you are stuffed. The best you can hope for is that a sophisticated virus scanner will detect the script trying to erase your windows directory.

In short, there is no hope for you if you continue to run Win9x. The solution is to create a dual boot NT/Win9x system. Win2000 is good (suprisingly good, actually). Dual boot linux us better, the best way to do that is to install Phat Linux or Dragon Linux. These two products sit in a folder just like normal windows programs, and start up when you double click on them. Very easy.

All Linux/BSD users: would you survive a rm -rf ~/*? Don't forget to run unknown scripts as another user who doesn't have access to all your documents!

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

In reply to Re: Obfuscation and viruses by jepri
in thread Obfuscation and viruses by WrongWay

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