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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors
Message-ID: <247@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 08:44:36 GMT
References: <8802072054.AA03747@jade.berkeley.edu+ <912@unccvax.UUCP>
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Summary: Virus stuff

In article <912@unccvax.UUCP>, fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick Pasotto) writes:
> You miss the point entirely!  A virus is an unwelcome intruder - at least in
> MY computer, perhaps not in yours.  What you are suggesting is no different
> in principle from saying:
> 
> 	"Let's see if we can break into someone's house.
> 	 We won't take or harm anything.  Maybe we can
> 	leave a note saying we were here."
> 
> Perhaps you would enjoy uninvited strangers wandering around your home.
> Most people wouldn't.

	Perhaps you would not be vulnerable to a virus if you were to avoid
getting bootable disks except through legal channels.  It seems to me that
the virus is spread via contaminated bootblocks, something you don't get from
a reputable company (unless you count Word Perfect) if you *PAY*.

	If you insist on getting stuff through illegitimate channels, you are
exposing yourself.

By the way!  Something WONDERFUL has happened!  Your mail system is ALIVE!
and better yet, some of your messages are infected with a virus!


PS: I have a copy of a virus that came (I think) on a purchased copy of
strip poker.  It shows up as a non-infected disk for vcheck1.9.  I will
post a copy (grabbed with tracker) if there is enough interest and no
objections (posting Amiga stuff is a little hard the way I have to do it).
I think if vcheck1.9 had just looked at track 0 and looked for "irus", it
would have found it no problem.  The damn thing says "virus" right in it.
(The "irus" is to avoid capitalization diffs).

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