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From: lupin3@UCSCB.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus via PD programs
Message-ID: <8801080805.AA16200@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 88 08:05:42 GMT
References: <602@inria.UUCP>
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+-In article <602@inria.UUCP>, rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) wrote:-
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| Some guys here suggest that the viruses may come from some PD program and
| not from a bootable disk.
| Let think about it: 
| 	In every FISH disk I have, there is a file README.listnumber.
| In this file I can find the description of the programs and the NAME OF THE
| AUTHOR !!!. Most of them (including me) are sending regularly programs
| on the net or to Fred Fish.

   True.  If there was ONLY a binary on the disk, and you got it from a GOOD
solid source, and it was a trojan horse, THEN I would say hunt them down like
dogs.
   BUT.... first of all, if they pass along the source with the binary, some
devious little devil could add his virus in to a copy of the source, re-compile
it, and put their version on the Fish disk, passing this along to their friends
(who, eventually, give it to your friends).  Second of all, haven't you ever
gotten something PD that was NOT on a Fish disk?  Like the game Gravattack
								^^^^big plug for
								a great game
								by a UCSC guy
								(shareware?!?)
| Same for programs in comp.binaries.amiga. You know their origin. (We suppose
| here the net is quite safe, since the moderators send Acknowledge message, so
| the origin adress may not be counterfeited).

   True.  PD Binaries from the net are almost definitely on the up-and-up.
| 
| Do you really believe that the people who wrote dangerous Viruses would 
| give their name and take the risk of being spotted ?
| I'd rather believe that PD writers are honest programmers !-- 
|
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  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think all the viruses so far were placed in
the public domain...
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