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From: farren@gethen.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SCA-VIRUS (uuencode) - (nf)
Message-ID: <269@gethen.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:41:35 EST
Article-I.D.: gethen.269
Posted: Fri Oct 30 19:41:35 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 00:36:53 EST
References: <15000003@altger.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland
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In article <15000003@altger.UUCP> boxdiger@altger.UUCP writes:
[after a discussion of the virus and even a uuencoded virus bootblock]
>
>Good Amiga-hack
>

No.  BAD Amiga-hack.  While it's technically interesting, it does damage
(and, in the case of copy-protected commercial software, potentially
fatal damage) to otherwise innocent disks.  BAD!

Anything which is going to alter, in any way, someone's system or data,
without giving him/her the opportunity to NOT alter them (by not running 
the program, if need be) is bad.  I don't care how benign the virus is
supposed to be, it is still a childish stunt, accomplishing nothing
except to make a lot of people a little more paranoid about their
Amigas.  Are we supposed to think this is a good thing?  I don't.


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Michael J. Farren      "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
unisoft!gethen!farren   that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa             Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"