kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Todd H. wrote:
> > "satyne" <untoquedecanela@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hello everyone:
> >>
> >> I have a question long ago, donīt know if this is possible
> >>
> >> is it possible that a disquette and a cd-rom be infected remotely, I
> >> mean, without having physic access to the computer?
> > A floppy disk, sure. Any malware that can run anything arbitrary on
> > the computer can arbitrarily infect whatever writable media is
> > connected to it. A CD-R is not possible to infect since it's
> > read-only media. I
> > imagine a CD-RW that isn't closed or whatever might be technically
> > possible, but the odds are so slim that there's on in any given cd
> > burner that I doubt anyone would bother coding for such a thing.
>
> actually, it's a cd-rom that's read only media (rom = read only
> media)... a cd-r is writable, and a cd-rw is rewritable so what you
> said for cd-rw is actually true for cd-r and cd-rw may actually as
> infectable as a floppy (depending on how it was prepared)...
Good point. I had a closed, finalized CD-R in my head, but was pretty
darned sloppy in that post. Thanks for cleaning it up.
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Todd H.
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