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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Test for CyberAIDS
Message-ID: <8285@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Aug 88 00:48:27 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Thankfully these virus checkers have been distributed in SOURCE form
so we can check them out before running them!  Otherwise they would be
prime targets for viruses, much like Copy II+ has been (BBS copies,
not ones legitimately obtained).

The computer equivalent of "safe sex" is SOURCE CODE.  Start insisting
on it.  Don't run binaries unless you have confidence that they have
not been infected (e.g. you got them directly from a reputable
commercial source, or you have thoroughly disassembled and understood
the binary - in which case you would have been better off with source).