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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viruses
Keywords: virus, antibody
Message-ID: <2900@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 15:37:21 GMT
References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:

 |    I have heard of things called antibodies, that sit in
 | your boot sector and do something like flash the screen .  The idea
 | being that if a virus hits and writes over the antibody, you will
 | notice the screen not flashing.
 
This is the first I have heard of this idea, and I find it interesting.
But I think it would drive me crazy.

Does anyone have experience with something like this?



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