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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Virus--  suggestion!
Message-ID: <1305@uop.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 88 08:26:05 GMT
References: <1288@uop.edu> <2377@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <428@mks.UUCP>
Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
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Keywords: virus, GEMDOS, atari
Summary: Geez... I should've added smiley's

In article <428@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
> 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've seen a few follow-ups to my original posting and they all took
it _seriously_.  Some people....

Finally someone who saw it for what it was.  I won't forget the damned
smiley-faces next time.

Seeing some articles about viruses in major publications have actually
made me laugh.  Government Computer News had one that made it seem likes
AIDS was infecting computers.  The virus business is SICK, but these
articles can be funny as hell if read from a novices eyes...

Again, please add one, two, or a hundred smiley faces to my original posting.