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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viruses are here to stay (long)
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Date: 6 Jan 88 15:56:16 GMT
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itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) writes:
>In article <3082@cbmvax.UUCP>, bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) writes:
>AH HA!  A virus that checks for viruses!  
>
>By the way, people have said that you can only get a virus from BOOTING an
>infected disk.  It as been mentioned (and continues to be mentioned) that 
>the instigator could be a program that (among other things) implants the 
>virus.  This means that you could get a virus from just executing a PD 
>program (even one from Fred Fish).  This means that you are *NOT* safe just 
>because you don't boot.  I have been told that there is a nifty PD demo 
>(some graphic animation thing with a MAX Headroom type character) that does 

        First of all, to be a virus a program must propogate itself.

        Second, please don't be so specific about how more "mines" can
          be laid.  I'm sure that with a couple of weeks work I could
          write a real nasty one of the little germs, and it would be
          neat to talk about how it might be done, but THIS IS NOT THE
          PLACE!  Don't give people the blueprints for disaster.

                                                        Thanks,


                                                                Wade.


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