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From: robinson@cs.dal.ca (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Antivirus viruses
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Date: 16 Aug 90 15:05:17 GMT
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erickson@lclark.BITNET writes:
>        My point is I don't see any additional danger the average user
>is put into with the innovation of antiviruses.  Yes, it gives the

I too fail to see a problem with this.  I think the most important
thing is not whether or not your virus fighting programs are of the
antivirus variety or not, but rather the important questions is did
you get them from a known reliable source (like directly from the
author).

The same argument about beguiling the user could be made against virus
scanning programs.  Such programs are not bad, one must simply be sure
he is getting them from a known source.

- -John Robinson
robinson@dalcsug.uucp
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