Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Antivirus viruses Message-ID: <0002.9009051851.AA00536@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Sep 90 15:40:58 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 16 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu elw@netxcom.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) writes: > 1) An Anti-virus virus COULD cause damage by infecting a boot > block or other file and damaging it in the process by ignorance > of special conditions. This is certainly a cause for concern to me. As a Macintosh user and system administrator, I am reasonably well acquainted with the various Macintosh viruses. It is my understanding that, as far as anyone can determine, every Mac virus has caused problems not by design, but rather through bugs which led to problems with specific applications, or the system in general (which is not to say no Mac virus has ever been written with malicious intent; simply that said intent has been on a much smaller scale than the actual effects of the virus might indicate). - -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu