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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Saveinfo.exe (PC)
Message-ID: <0003.8906261558.AA06919@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 89 07:45:28 GMT
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In article <0007.8906201731.AA26692@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU writes:
| I just downloaded a program named safeinfo.exe from a bbs
| at (201)473-1991. safeinfo (tm) is a trademark of
| safeware (TM) incorporated. the program is a clone of norton's
| sysinfo with more features.
|
| what makes it worthy of mention here is the fact that safeware (TM)
| runs an internal test upon itself each and every time it is loaded.

If you like this idea, you can use it with your own programs.  A shareware
package ($10-$15) called CAware allows "your C programs to be self-aware".
The registration fee gets you source code.  This is available from the
IBMPC anti-viral archive sites.

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Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu