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From:	"Andreas Kaestner" <andreas DOT kaestner AT farwig DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Bugs in DR-DOS 7.03
Date:	Sun, 13 Jan 2002 08:42:08 +0100
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> So, regardless of if the IHC signature is caused by Windows or
> by some kind of anti-virus-protection in the BIOS, or both, it
> unfortunately manifests as a compatibility problem with DR-DOS
> formatted floppies...
> 
> I am really interested in the observations other´s have made, so
> we can narrow down the problem as much as possible.

See:

What's NOT a Virus
http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/~janda/notvirus.html (section 2.2)

Windows 95/98 Overwrites Boot-Sector Field on Floppy Disks (Q148637)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q148637

Understanding Disk Volume Tracking in Windows 95 (Q150582)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q150582

Windows 95/98 überschreibt Felder von Disketten-Bootsektoren
http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/tip1242.htm

Regards
  Andreas (lurking since Jan. 2000 :-))

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