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From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP
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Subject: Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus)
Message-ID: <3294@hub.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:24:00 GMT
References: <1989Dec12.103124.7074@caen.engin.umich.edu>
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From article <1989Dec12.103124.7074@caen.engin.umich.edu>, by mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu):
> In article <4221@sbcs.sunysb.edu> vallon@sboslab15.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin Vallon) writes:
>>In article <3277@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:
>>> From article <1501@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, by wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu
>>(Bill Taroli):
>>> > if this WDEF does have code in it that's installing resources into
>>> > the Desktop then why are the virus detection programs (like GateKeeper) not
>>> > able to catch it?
>>> 
>>> Because they don't watch the Desktop file.
>   Wrong.

In my haste to convince people that the WDEF virus does in fact exist, I made
an incorrect guess about how it was going about its dirty-work. I still don't
know, and I don't want to know. Probably a bit like knowing how to build a
nuclear weapon.
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