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From: stripes@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Saveinfo.exe (PC)
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Date: 21 Jun 89 23:06:58 GMT
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In article <0007.8906201731.AA26692@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU writes:

[stuff deleted]
>safeware (TM) is a unique new concept in shareware. all safeware (TM)
>products run safeware's (TM) proprietary selftest (TM) module as soon
>as they are loaded.
[stuff deleted]

Of corse as soon as safeware's (TM) proprietary selftest gets too
popular (assumeing they intend to sell the selftest to other
programers, or that they become massavaly popular...) a new virus
could just remove the checking code.  (same deal for Word Perf.)

To make a selftest strong you have to make them non-standard.  (i.e.
change the code on every release even if the last release was fine,
make it diffrent for each product, and whenever else you can).
- --
           stripes@wam.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
                "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor not an Excorsist"
                   - One of Bones' lines in a previous ST:V script...