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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
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Date: 4 Jan 88 14:36:10 GMT
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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>All this talk about pirates getting their just desserts when a virus
>destroys all their work reminds me of the "fags deserve to get A.I.D.S.,
>it's gods revenge" school of thought.


        I don't think the idea is the same at all.  A "fag" has not 
      stolen someone elses property and contracted AIDS as a result!
      The software pirate, on the other hand, has stolen someone's
      property, and thus is deserving of some punishment.

        Of course, this virus has evidently infected some innocent
      people as well, though if the disk needs to be booted to infect
      a system I suspect that "innocents" have not been a big part of
      this virus' vector.

        What scares me is the next generation of viruses I expect will
      crop up.  I'm not going to say anything about what I think they'll
      look like, but I fear they will be much more difficult to avoid
      than the SCA virus that recently spread.


        To C= :


                It would be useful to try to spot new variations of virus
              as early as possible.  Any Ideas?


                                                        Thanks,

                                                        
                                                                Wade.


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