Scott Holder wrote: > Dan wrote: > >> At 2:06 PM -0700 4/14/2009, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: >> >> >>> I know viruses are not such a big thing on the Mac but I personally have >>> in the past gotten them... >>> >>> >> I doubt anyone is planning to write a virus for the classic Mac OS. >> And the ones that did exist are only available in virus databases, >> afaik, these days. >> >> So why bother? >> >> - Dan. >> >> > > He mentioned he has stacks of old floppies from mixed sources, which > could potentially have old viruses lurking on them. It's unlikely, but > if there's anything he's worried about losing or taking damage, it's a > legitimate concern. > > It is pretty unlikely though. > > Scott > > Yes very unlikely, but I still like to have it handy for checking strange disks.
I actually got an infected demo disk on my Apple IIgs of all things a few years ago that made me think my IIgs got fried... It changed the boot settings and set the background/text to black so I wouldn't know what the heck was going on when it didn't boot up and just gave me a black screen. Being that I'd only recently gotten it at the time I went through all sorts of crap before someone told me to try resetting the battery RAM. Now that is something that you don't generally expect to happen either. I'll probably just try to copy virex off my SE. -Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
