- Can a virus unhide
- Posted by b11_ on November 8th, 2005
Can a virus unhide or write to or read a hidden drive/partition? Can a virus
write to a read-only file?
- Posted by Shenan Stanley on November 8th, 2005
b11_ wrote:
> Can a virus unhide or write to or read a hidden drive/partition? Can
> a virus write to a read-only file?
If it can be done programmatically - then a virus can be programmed to do
it.
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- Posted by David H. Lipman on November 8th, 2005
From: "b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Can a virus unhide or write to or read a hidden drive/partition? Can a virus
| write to a read-only file?
There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus
Any software, malware or not, can change file or folder attributes if it is programmed to do
so. This include a file who's attribute is set to Read-Only.
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Dave
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http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
- Posted by HeyBub on November 8th, 2005
b11_ wrote:
> Can a virus unhide or write to or read a hidden drive/partition? Can
> a virus write to a read-only file?
Sure. Anything physically possible is possible.
