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From: abc@BRL.ARPA (Brint Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's can catch viruses too!
Message-ID: <8803231448.aa18235@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 23 Mar 88 19:48:03 GMT
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	While we wait for the smart people to produce the "vaccines"
that will protect us from these viruses, the infections march on.

	The only truly safe (where have I heard that word recently?) way
to get things from BBSs without catching the virus is NEVER, NEVER,
download and execute binaries.  If you can't get the source and
compile/assemble it yourself so that you can examine it, search for
strings that represent vulnerable addresses, examine every hard disk
write command, etc, then don't run the program!

	Personally, I think that comp.sys.binaries is a very bad idea
for just this reason.  Sharing source code is one thing; sharing object
code is another.

_Brint