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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Boot-block contest ( )
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Date: 3 Feb 88 04:18:41 GMT
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Reply-To: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
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In article <2437@crash.cts.com> amiguy@pnet01.cts.com (Sean Wolfe) writes:
>rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:

>>By now, thanks to SCA ;-), you all know that we have some free space in
>>the boot-blocks of DOS-bootable disks to write a small piece of code.
>>How about launching a boot-block contest ?

>You can't be serious, can you? Are you suggesting that everyone write a
> 'virus' ??

NONONONONONO!!!!  The trick is: these programs SHOULD NOT propagate themselves!
  If they do, MAKE THEM CHECK if the target disk has a normal boot block!

Otherwise, you will have another virus on your hands, every bit as nasty as the
SCA virus!

							-- Jim