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From: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: sc addendum (about binary postings)
Message-ID: <785@philica.ica.philips.nl>
Date: 28 Mar 91 07:00:23 GMT
References: <meulenbr.669380873@cstw168> <9103212117@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> <9476@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Organization: Philips TDS, Innovation Centre Aachen
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In article <9476@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <9103212117@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes:
>>In principle, posting binaries can't hurt
>Viruses?

Viruses can easily be created in source distributed programs. Do you check out
all sources you get, before compiling and running them? I don't. I agree that
you CAN check out sources and even remove viruses if they're present, but I
don't agree with the implicit assumption that programs, distributed in source
form can not contain viruses.

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Innovation Centre Aachen