re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 1:34 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paul D (2162 messages posted) retired is pretty much on the money. I think format.com has some built-in safeguards which a smart virus writer may be able to bypass. I think you're right about deltree, though. I admit I have no hard evidence, just lots of hearsay, and like you I have no intention of finding out. I do know for sure that you can run format from within Windows 98 on any logical drive but the one Windows is installed on, but I'm guessing Windows stops that, not format.com per se. Paul D On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:02 pm, sekirt wrote: >Paul, >A virus, prank or accident triggering DELTREE or >FORMAT from drive C:\ directed to drive C:\ should >work. The program (command) once initiated, should >run from memory and and finish the task. > >I've never tried this foolish exercise, so if you could >explain otherwise, I'd like to know. >sekirt > > > Written in response to: re: That won't work (sekirt: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:02 pm) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (Silas: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 12:43 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] format c: Bad command or file name (James: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:12 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (Bob Harris: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:25 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (Mac: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:28 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (krishna: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:27 am) That won't work (Paul D: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 10:23 am) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 12:02 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 12:15 pm) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 3:24 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 3:44 pm) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 4:17 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:19 pm) re: That won't work (Paul D: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 1:34 pm) re: That won't work (Silas: Wed, Dec 10, 2003, 12:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum