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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
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Subject: Suggestion for "Ultimate Virus"
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Date: 26 Aug 89 05:37:36 GMT
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Hello everyone,

I've been thinking lately of how to write the ultimate virus, one
that would be very hard to identify with pattern matching
techniques, though perhaps single stepping through it would
work. At any rate, if my ideas are good [for the viruses, not
users], I do not want to post them to the world at large. I was
wondering who is a trusted expert on the subject who would
be interested in hearing my ideas?

I've never written a virus, and I do not intend to write one.
If I ever felt foolish enough to do so, it would be a benign
experiment -- though it may fill up the disk. This is simply
a theoretical exercise. Part of the value of dreaming up
an ultimate virus is being a step ahead of the virus
makers: if we know where they're going, we can beat them
to it.

- -- Ari Halberstadt '91, "Long live succinct signatures"
E-mail: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu	Tel: (603) 640-5687
Disclaimer: "Live Free or Die"

[Ed. I wonder if that's what RTM thought...]