[techtalk] request for ideas

[Janus]

At 03:52 PM 10/11/1999 -0700, you wrote:

>the only major security thing I can think of regarding automounting
>floppies would be boot sector viruses, except that I've never met a boot
>sector virus for linux, so while that would be an issue (and a major
>one...) under dos/win95/win98, but not linux
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It certainly is that.  Up to the creation of the email propagating trojan,
the most common way to pass viruses was not, despite the hype, the
internet, but booting Wintel with a floppy in the A drive.....
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