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From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Viral generators; code wars
Message-ID: <3252@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 05:19:46 GMT
References: <500@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Reply-To: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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In article <500@xios.XIOS.UUCP> dont@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Don Taylor) writes:

>PS.  I just heard about a virus generator called OSIRIS. (Cute etymology).
>Now you don't have to be even moderately competent technically to create
>and distribute a new virus, anybody with a PC and a modem can start an
>infection.  I should be interested to hear anything about this program.  I
>should like to have my hands around the neck of jerk who wrote it...

With any luck OSIRIS will be poorly enough designed to produce viruses with
distinctive signatures in their code.  Then you have to send SET after the 
viruses; it sweeps your system and cleans up OSIRIS-viruses.  Be warned, 
though, if you leave even 1/13th of OSIRIS around it will get restored and
go back into production.