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From: pl@tut.fi (Pertti Lehtinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
Message-ID: <2284@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: 6 Jan 88 08:38:21 GMT
References: <923@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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From article <923@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, by rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki):
> I'm not sure I understand the connection between the virus and piracy.
> The virus spreads through disks that are duplicated and distributed.
> Is the claim being made that most disks that are duplicated and
> distributed are pirated software?  One of the things I have always loved

	You are right. Amount of PD-software for Amiga is large
	and i like that too.

	But SCA virus spead through bootable disks and
	most of PD-disks are non bootable and usually
	accessible without boot.  So you don't get
	touched through PD-disk necessarily although
	it is infected.

	Pirated disks are usually bootable,
	and may even be somehow protected
	so you are more likely infected through those,
	even if the amount is lesser.

	Of course future viruses may be able to
	spead without boot, so we should be very carefull.

	PS.
	If virus meant to be harmless, is so bad,
	what could happen with harmfull viruses.


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