Not _exactly_ correct.
I have had exactly that happen! Booting an OSR2 system with a known safe
boot disk, left writable, is not safe. The hard drive is accessed during
boot to access the MSDOS.SYS (I think). The HD is certainly accessed,
anyway, and it caused a great deal of headaches before I figured out
what was happening. Simple answer: Just write-protect the disk!
Jim Meagher wrote:
>
> If you are booting from a known clean floppy it is IMPOSSIBLE for any
> virus on the hard drive to infect the floppy ---- unless --- you activate
> an application on the hard drive.
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