Re: could a cd or disquette be infected remotely?

Unruh wrote:
kurt wismer <kurtw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[snip]
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 (d/epending on how it was prepared)...

Once a cdr has been written it is read only.

the portion that has been written is read only, but so long as the disk isn't finalized and there's still some free space more can be written to it...

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