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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: virus, ARRRG! (really a virus-eating-virus)
Message-ID: <4987@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 18:49:41 GMT
References: <10081@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> <4361@garfield.UUCP> <4763@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Amiga Biotechnology Labs and Nuclear Testing Grounds, Nevada
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Keywords: bonzoid idea

In article <4763@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccasttd@pyr.UUCP (Thomas M. Dixon Jr.) writes:
>In article <4361@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>>something like what I hope the VCheck 2.0 will do -- hang around in memory
>>and restore itself after boots, examine the boot block of all bootable disks
>>you insert, warn you of a non-standard one, and ask you if it should
>>re-install that disk.  [ ... ]
>
>YES...
>If this is not what 2.0 will do, lets get 3.0 out immed with this feature.
>We need a program that "hangs out" all the time and randomly checks for
>system corruption.  [ ... ]

	I *REALLY* hate to contribute to this, but....

	This is a bad idea.  VCheck should most definitely not hang around
in memory.  If you want it available all the time, then put it in your
startup-sequence.  Not even VD0: automagically survives reboots (it has to
be specifically re-mounted), and *it* has a legitimate excuse to do so.

	In my humble opinion, the *only* things that should be surviving
reboots are resident libraries (those that have been RamKick'ed).  Anything
else hanging around would make me nervous.  Besides, all some socially
maladjusted ninny has to do is create a virus that survives reboots, and he
calls it "VCheck 3.1".  Ugh....

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