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From: cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How about A VIRUS EATING VIRUS?
Message-ID: <1171@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 00:35:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.1171
Posted: Sun Oct 18 00:35:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 21:43:30 EDT
References: <5928@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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Summary: BIOLOGICAL VIRUS

In article <5928@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugpete@cs.buffalo.EDU (Peter Theobald) writes:
> .....
> 	It would be neat to have it hide itself on the disk so it can
> spread itself and help rid the world of the VIRUS, but then we'd need a
> VIRUS eating VIRUS eater. And then after that we'd need a VIRUS eating
> VIRUS eating VIRUS eater :-). and so on and so on and so on
> 	-Pete

But technically Virus's can't eat or actively destroy on their own initiative.
I assume computer Viruses behave like biological Viruses which are no more than
a strange of DNA or RNA encapsulated in a protein shell.  They are nothing more
than corrupting information.  I guess than you'd call the cure a computer
inhibitor, or anti-viral bacteria.  I'm supposed to be an EE major so I'll stop.
			Wilson Cheung