Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Virus--  suggestion!
Keywords: virus, GEMDOS, atari
Message-ID: <428@mks.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 18:17:18 GMT
References: <1288@uop.edu> <2377@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <2377@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>, pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
> In article <1288@uop.edu> exodus@uop.edu (EXODUS) writes:
> >
> >What if someone wrote a 'friendly' virus.  One that fixed the bugs in the
> >Operating System.  One that multiplied so everyone's bugs were fixed. 
> 
> No, no, a million times no.  There is NO SUCH THING as a 'friendly' virus.
> [much venom deleted]

Umm, I think the posting about the friendly virus was a joke, tongue-in-
cheek, not serious.

Maybe exodus should have put a couple of smileys in it, but I think it
was fairly obivous that no virus can fix bugs in an operating system. 

I kind of liked the idea myself.  I would immediately contaminate my ST
with a virus to fix the 40 folder bug, and the slow file opening bug,
and any others too. 

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