Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!DMasterson
From: DMasterson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Repost from BITNET -- the SCA Virus
Message-ID: <6018@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 May 88 18:45:19 GMT
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In message <707@lakesys.UUCP>, jason@lakesys.UUCP writes:
>[...]
>	Sure a virus could get started on a large scale if it was done "well"
>enough. If I were him and had decided to write a virus as a gag and give it
>to a friend, I would've made it so that 1) After a certain time, the virus
>would commit suicide by itself, saying "Hah, I told you I could infect your
>system" and 2) Limiting the number of copies the virus could make of itself,
>like "When the virus copies itself, decrease the number of 'children' it can
>produce in itself as well as in any copy it makes, so that after awhile, it
>wouldn't be able to reproduce itself" - termination by suicide after that.
>
Hindsight's great isn't it!  I'm not condoning what the SCA virus did, but
making the assertion that someone should have thought about this when it was
just meant as a ONE PERSON joke is a bit much -- don't you think??

>	Jason
>"Not your average iconoclast"

David Masterson
DMasterson@cup.portal.com