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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: viral risk of shareware/PD
Message-ID: <2352@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 29 Oct 90 16:04:24 GMT
References: <6868@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1990Oct26.193015.1141@uwasa.fi>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1990Oct26.193015.1141@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>Put my dtetimal.exe in your
>autoexec.bat.  If dtetimal gets contaminated, it will loudly inform
>you of the fact. Dtetimal is part of my /pc/ts/tsutil30.arc package
>at uwasa.fi archives. 

Sorry...It will not work in all cases...not with some of the latest "stealth"
type viruses, that is.

In that case the program will appear unchanged, if the virus is active when it
is executed.

-frisk

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