Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!odie.cs.mun.ca!carlos From: carlos@odie.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Virus Message-ID: <9104290307.AA00767@odie.cs.mun.ca> Date: 29 Apr 91 03:07:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: CS Dept, Memorial University of Newfoundland Lines: 14 In article larserio@ifi.uio.no writes: >Someone asked what a link virus is so i might as well tell you all :-( >It's a small programs that "pastes" on to a program file in such a way that >each time you start that program the virus is run too... > [ ... ] :-( So watch out !!! Is there any "cure" for a link virus? Does any virus-killer detect/destroy these types of virii? I've had programs bomb on me that had previously worked fine... Might be the virus you're talking about. -- C. Miguel Borges "The philosophers have only interpretted St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada the world in various ways; the point carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca is to change it." an630@cleveland.Freenet.edu - Karl Marx