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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: 8 Jan 88 19:36:11 GMT
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ccasttd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Thomas M. Dixon Jr.) writes:
>
>While this virus was a problem due to the network overload it caused, It's
>harmless nature is demonstrated by one fact:
>     It dies on Feb 1, 88 and will no longer propagate itself after that 
>	date.
>
>If the SCA virus was indeed so harmless, Why wasn't it designed to kill itself
>(of be easily killed) after it made its point the way xmas exec was.

        Good point.  Had they designed it to kill itself at, say, generation
number 5 or 10 it would have been much less dangerous.  But then, they're the
"Swiss Cracking Association", a group that slanders the name of the Swiss,
obviously asocial vandals.

                                                        Wade.


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