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From: dross@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (david ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Article on Datacrime virus
Message-ID: <2842@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:34:23 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12527529029.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <762@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
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In article <762@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> drv@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (dennis.r.vogel) writes:
>
>No need to send me anything for this advice--it's free.  The virus
>gurus should be telling everyone this, too, rather than just asking
>for money for their products especially if the chances of having the
>virus are rather small.

Hear hear!  Actually, I'd like to see virus detect/protect software
distributed as *source code*, preferably in GW Basic (or FORTH,
if sector reads are absolutely necessary).

This certainly holds for PD programs, which themselves have a nasty
habit of picking up viri.