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From: wilde@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Nick Wilde)
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal...
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Date: 21 Nov 90 04:29:26 GMT
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In article <27013.27483646@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mlab2@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Here's a dilemna...
>
>Consider an anti-virus virus.  The Mac community has a number of excellent
>virus detection and repair programs available commercially and in the public
>domain. Unfortunately, there are far too many people who are naive with regard
>to viruses and/or do not practice safe computing. A virus whose sole intention
>was to propagate and eradicate the more virile strains affecting the Mac
>
At a seminar I attended at IBM's Watson Research Center this summer, one
of the researchers there mentioned that several of the messy-dos type
viruses were just such "cures" gone awry, and that often the "cure" ended
up being more of a pain than the original afflication.

My two cents worth: Me thinks the Macintosh community as a whole would end
up cursing the creator of such a program, rather than praising him. Don't
do it.  
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Nick Wilde                                           wilde@boulder.colorado.edu