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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viruses
Keywords: virus, antibody
Message-ID: <4091@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 90 09:11:10 GMT
References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2900@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <2900@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>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?

Well not quite. Some time ago I wrote a whole bunch of virus protection 
programs.
Our darling little students keep bringing the little b*gg*rs in on their
disks you see. Anyway I haven't touched them in a while but most folk think
that they are pretty good so I'll post them to the binaries group.
One of them does flash the screen, but only if you run into trouble not the
other way around.

>-- 
>    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
>	ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca	ljdickey@water.BITNET
>	ljdickey@water.UUCP		..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
>	ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu	

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