Re: A83: Help
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Re: A83: Help
Yeah, and not to mention the virii that melt your CPU, fry your BIOS,
scratch your Hard Drive, write to your CDROM, Fizzle your monitor, tap
your phones, erase every disk within a twenty-foot radius, invert your
disk drive, scramble your cache, organize your RAM, and flatten 2 tires
on each car in your garage!
-Dimitri
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Trey Jazz wrote:
>
> seems like a crippleware version of windows :) i like my puter where it has
> a password to start up and it has a virii scanner and i can delete anything
> anytime i want without having to type in a password for every file i delete,
> theres one thing you forgot...who said virii have to delete stuff? what
> about virus protection for virii that make files that fill up hard drives
> and crash them? would your 'os' be able to stop that? would it then make
> your 'os' ask for every file to be written to your hard drive?
>
> >this seems like a good response, but not correct. the system i propose
> >will contain an OS that only enables itself the ability to delete or
> >rearrange file. this means that you have to have a password to use the
> >deletion tool, and you also cannot at all costs use the HardDrive like
> >the RAM (meaning no more looking up FATs or actually byte allocations in
> >memory). this does bring down a lot of possible programs, but i haven't
> >seen a great game yet that needs to delete files on the harddrive. i
> >know saved games need to be cleaned out once in awhile, but that's why i
> >am putting a password protection on it, maybe i'll make a "deletable"
> >file attribute that will allow that file to be deleted without
> >confirmation. virii were made by huge corporations in the first place
> >in order for them to clean out their harddrive (deltree c:\*.* /y is
> >usually used). this isn't a hightech virus but it still gets the job
> >done. now the ability to delete massive amounts of files is gone (if
> >the computer i propose is built). since you can't send commands out of
> >the cpu like an OUT statement (unless you have priveladge of 0 which you
> >can't since that'll be my system only).
> >
> >this may sound stupid now, but until you see it you can't dis it
> >(patience--spelling?). for every hacker/cracker/virii scenario i came
> >up with, i've also come up with a way to stop it.
> >
> >i can't say much more until i actually build the system and show you,
> >but please feel free to criticize somemore.
>
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