In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerome
Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
<SNIP>
>} That is a good point ... about the ROM based OS.
>
>I like ROM based OS.
>OS should be stable. and Rom based provided a virus-free quick install !
Most virus infections do not attack the core O/S. The really prevalent
ones attack badly written stuff like the address book in M$ Outlook. You
have to open that can of worms which tries to define where an O/S stops
and applications begin but, on the whole, even a ROM based O/S can be
attacked by a virus. The computer would still fire up but, if a virus
was to be written for a QL, it could still wipe bits off the hard drive
and stop some of the applications loading. You would have the flashing
cursor and some functionality, true, but data and system integrity could
still be destroyed.
Virus attacks damage Windoze but they do so mostly by re-writing file
associations (my wife had one which changed the associations of .exe to
some no existent program. Every executable would not work. This was just
a re-write in the registry of course but regedit is an exe file) or
wiping bits of the hard drive. Nothing is immune from this.
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