"Leythos" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

"Leythos" wrote in message
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There is no "Protected Area" there is just a restriction on what you
can
copy. Where do you get the idea that there is some magical area
reserved
on your drive?

Your assumption about "protected area" is wrong, as is your reasoning.

Suppose a virus or other piece of malware managed to protect itself
such
that I could not copy it. That would mean that I could not send it to an
expert for analysis or copy it onto another uninfected machine myself to
figure out how to disentangle it from my system.

It doesn't say that it will block access to files at the kernel layer,
only that you won't be able to pirate them - why would you assume that
virus scanners and such won't find them or that you can't delete them.

It is already difficult to delete some viruses and malware. Being unable
to copy them (so that they can be analyzed on a clean machine or sent to an
expert) could definitely make things much harder.

DS